Corporate takeovers get all the attention. How could they not? Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake. Then there's the rock-star status of dealmakers like GE's Jack Welch. But the ugly truth about mergers, running at a record clip again this year, is that a great many don't work out. It should be no surprise, then, that amid so much merger mayhem, company divestitures are running high as well.
That often gets overlooked, and it's a shame because investors can really make a killing in bust-ups. I'm not talking about AT&T;, by the way. That's a bust-up with...
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