In today’s short post we will look at the news recently that important players within the financial marketplace are jostling for position with regards to the sale of a company that specialises in providing particular information to the financial world. The emergence of NewsCorp and the so-called ‘Big Three’ credit rating agencies as potential purchasers of Acuris suggest that this is a potentially important sale. However, the question for this brief post is whether the sale acts as an indicator for a much larger, and much more important sentiment. Acuris, formerly the Mergermarket Group, is a ‘ media company ’ that specialises in providing financial information to the marketplace. More specifically, it has been noted for its excellence in providing information on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) to its subscriber base. Although its current owners BC Partners only purchased the company in 2013 for £382 million including debt, it is now widely rumoured that the company is for...