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Fantasy M&A from the Telegraph: Apple to buy Land Rover, Melrose to buy Unilever and ....

Having worked as a financial hack for the last fifteen years I guess it wasn't too hard to predict there will be plenty of "prediction" pieces at this time of the year.

How else you do fill a newspaper, website or Bloomborg terminal during a news vacuum at the end/beginning of the year?

Perhaps the most bizarre prediction piece came from Matthew Lynn, a business columnist for The Daily Telegraph, my former employer.

Lynn dedicates today's column to five M&A deals "it would be great to see" over the next twelve months. They are:

1. Apple buying Jaguar Land Rover.

2. Barclays buying Deutsche Bank.

3. Amazon purchasing Marks & Spencer.

4. Melrose, yes thats Melrose Industries, snapping up Unilever.

5. Emirates acquiring IAG, the owner of British Airways and Iberia...