M&A Activity Picks Up Despite Shutdown: Goldman

Mergers and Acquisitions have been slow through 2013. Despite what appears to be an ideal situation for big deals to take place, and some major deals being announced, levels of M&A activity are still below what analysts expect given the state of the market. It appears that businesses are unwilling to take on debt to make deals. Last week saw an uptick in mergers and acquisitions, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). The capital markets monitor, the authorship of which was led by analyst Alexander Blostein, records last week as a strong one for M&A…