Salesforce (CRM.US) 58% premium acquisition ignites M&A expectations: software stocks leap from AI losers to the "center stage of the M&A market"?

Zhitong Finance APP has learned that as of the U.S. stock market close on October 20, shares of CRM cloud software giant Salesforce (CRM.US) had risen 5.6% cumulatively since the beginning of October. By comparison, over the same period, the Nasdaq Composite Index and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 1.6% and 10.6%, respectively. Compared with the broad global technology sector, its relative strength and clear trajectory of rising against the trend stand out.