Companies announced 43 U.S. mergers, acquisitions and big capitalization deals in December, and those deals had a total deal of about $9 billion, according to GlobalData PLC.
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The deals had an average value of about $21 million.
GlobalData has not provided comparable data for 2018.
The London-based firm says the United States averaged 52 insurance deals per month in the first 11 months of 2019.