Mega merge on Barclays and ABN Amro.

According to internet news, Barclays and ABN Amro will merge together as one company, this merge will be a mega merge. why is a mege merge? I have search the information on Barclays and ABN Amro below.

Barclays PLC
Barclays PLC is the largest bank in the world by total assets ($1.59 trillion), the 14th largest in the world by Tier 1 capital ($32.5 billion), and the 15th largest in the world by Market capitalization ($71.6 billion).[citation needed] It is the third largest bank in the United Kingdom based on assets.


ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO ranks eighth in Europe and 13th in the world based on total assets, with more than 4,500 branches in 53 countries, a staff of over 110,000 full-time equivalents and total assets of EUR 999 billion (as at 30 September 2006).

The bank has developed a strategy of having three home markets: The Netherlands, the United States, and Brazil. The U.S. commercial banking operations of ABN AMRO consist of LaSalle Bank in Chicago, Illinois and LaSalle Bank Midwest in Detroit, Michigan which operate under the name LaSalle Bank Corporation. LaSalle Bank Midwest is the former Standard Federal Bank, which changed its name on September 12, 2005. ABN AMRO also operates ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, one of the leading mortgage servicing companies in the US. In Brazil, ABN AMRO's subsidiary is Banco Real. Banco Real recently completed an acquisition of Sudameris, a peer bank in the Brazilian market.

Just take note both size of the company is huge!

Halliburton's Exchange ratio offer on KBR.

Halliburton's offer the KBR maximum exchange ratio of 1.595 and on top of that with a discount of 7.5% is interesting but KBR forecast on sale is on the downtrend, I think this should be last for a short while.

What I have searched so far is:-
The analysts that rate KBR is a "HOLD" and for the charting side is bearish.
The KBR company senitment is bad .
KBR Peer and industry comparison .

Does US slow down affect KBR business?

Will the stock price fall after spin-off? if yes, is a good time to buy them. if not, forget it!

Company Description:-
A global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil infrastructure sectors.

Background:-
From building naval ships in WWII to fighting oil-well fires, delivering gas, and serving meals in Iraq, KBR (formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root) has a red hot history. Other services include providing engineering, construction management, project management, and facilities operations and maintenance services to military and governmental entities, as well as to the oil and gas, infrastructure, pulp and paper, power, and process industries. KBR streamlined its operations and split into two divisions: government and infrastructure, which accounts for about 80% of sales, and energy and chemicals. Oil field services giant Halliburton is spinning off 20% of KBR through an IPO.

What's the next new thing for Apple?

According to reuters, Apple plan to introduce zippy notebook computers later this year that use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras. This will help the consumer to eliminate the headache of lengthy startup times when turning on computer.

The adventage of using fast memory over a harddisk:-
-lesser take up space.
-weight lesser then harddisk which harddisk is big and heavy.
-faster run time when bootup the computer, also as well as loading program when using.
-using Chip is quiet than harddisk.
-can be upgrade by interchanging the chip with higher capacity.
-future Chip may be cheaper than harddisk in manfacturing cost.

The trend of using fast memory or flash memory will be there.

Therefore Seagate stock price may face selling pressure if they can shift their technology to a higher lever.

Apple stock is rated a buy and future Apple stock maybe bullish if they can really launch that new product out sooner than expected time.