M&A Whispers Sound Like Alarm Bells: Bloomberg Deals

Hi, it’s Neil Callanan, Kwaku Gyasi and Aaron Kirchfeld in London, running some numbers that don’t bode well for any big pickup in M&A. Elsewhere, UBS shuffles the top deck and another US investor arrives in English football.

Today’s top stories

• Tempur Sealy buys Mattress Firm for $4 billion.

• Apollo falls short with flagship fund.

• Hedge fund manager to buy Birmingham City stake.

• JetBlue workers say comments backing merger aren’t theirs.

• UBS reshuffles top management after CS deal.

Quiet time

Talk of mergers and acquisitions in the latest round of corporate calls is down so far. Noticeably so.

“M&A” has been ...