Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor - DFP

Wall Street loves to digest merger stories. Acquisitions. Big bets. Big dollars. Big...pockets. It's like gossip news for the kind of people who don't care too much about red carpets and royal weddings, because they spend most of their spare time reading spreadsheets.

The Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor is like turning all that gossip into a mathematical equation...even more drool-inducing for spreadsheet-reading class. Intralinks, a provider of data products, compiles information about merger and acquisition deals that are still in their early stages. These are M&A transactions that haven't been, um...consummated yet.

The index provides a look at what deal activity (meaning actual, competed deals) will look like six month down the road. Putting it in gossip terms, it would be like providing an index to predict how many celebrity divorces were likely to be announced half a year in the future.