Prediction: These 8 Companies Will Get Bought in 2017

Some educated guesses. The staff of Fortune is assembling its predictions for 2017 in our annual feature, the Fortune Crystal Ball, now on newsstands in the December 1 issue of the magazine. Here’s one of our forecasts. Helped along by low interest rates, the merger boom of 2016’s last quarter will keep rolling. Here, the Fortune staff’s best guesses at who’s next.