Higher commodity prices, and higher currency and commodity price volatility have combined with challenging economic circumstances to make for very challenging economics within many industries today. These factors introduce risk to both top line revenue as well as the cost structure to wreak...

While we may not have a better crystal ball than anyone else, in our advisory work, we do have good visibility on what folks are looking at and "where the money is going." Without betraying any confidences, we have assembled a high-level perspective on some of the activity, trends, and outlook...