Wall Street deal-makers enjoy biggest merger boom since 2000

New York

STOCKS are surging, corporate executives are ambitious and debt is cheap. The result is one of the biggest booms in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

A US$100 billion worth of mergers made on Monday added to the tally, putting Wall Street on pace for a year of deal-making rivalling those during the dotcom bubble and the private equity upsurge just before the financial crisis.