October’s merger mania was not quite what it was cracked up to be By: MarketWatch November 02, 2016 at 13:30 PM EDT Talk of a record pace of mergers-and-acquisition activity in October is looking a bit overdone, now the final data have been tallied. Read More >> Related Stocks: AT&T Inc Aetna Anthem Inc Cigna Corp Humana Nxp Semiconductors Qualcomm, Inc. Reynolds American Standard & Poors 500 Time Warner