Market At A Glance

Over the past two weeks, Buyouts has tracked approximately $8.1 billion in disclosed LBO deals, sending our year-to-date total up to $177.8 billion worth of deals completed by U.S.-based firms. That amount is nearly three times the $62.45 billion of disclosed deals that Buyouts had tracked by this time last year and is only about $20 billion shy of 2005’s year-end total of $198 billion.