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...Warner Bros Discovery: Investors will be keen to learn more about the entertainment group’s new streaming service, Max, and any comments it has on how the writers’ strike will affect its business....
...Several high profile companies have recently flagged looming job cuts, including media company Warner Bros Discovery and chipmaker Intel....
...Warner Music: Investors will be paying attention to the once red-hot market for song and recording acquisitions....
...Other US companies: Companies reporting before the bell include General Electric, 3M, PepsiCo, UPS and Warner Bros....
...In details announced today, AT&T shareholders will receive 0.24 shares of the new “Warner Bros....
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...Alexandra Lowe’s gleaming Daphne fared better than the unstylish Apollo of Jonathan McGovern, though his closing lament was touching, and both benefited from Christian Curnyn’s musical direction....
...In another of the Creative Spaces is Julia Alexandra Mee, an Italian-trained affrescista, or fresco painter....
...FACE Alexandra Soveral, LondonWorking from a small studio in Maida Vale, facialist Alexandra Soveral’s natural approach to skin emphasises tissue and muscle manipulation via lots of massage, to de-stress...
...AT&T is buying back a tranche of bonds it issued to fund its acquisition of Time Warner, a sign it does not expect a speedy resolution to the government's challenge to the deal....
...As part of the cash- and equity-funded acquisition, AT&T will take on Time Warner’s debt, which totals more than $15bn....
...Just last week Comcast made a $65bn bid for Fox, after reading good things in the tea leaves of Judge Richard Leon's decision allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner....
...Advocates for the antitrust explanation have come into the spotlight in recent years, particularly since the US government’s challenge of the merger between AT&T and Time Warner....
...IFR is fretting about AT&T's debt burden, after the company's acquisition of Time Warner was approved by a US judge on Tuesday....
...Investors welcomed the well-telegraphed nature of Bayer’s bond issuance, as they brace for an acceleration in debt-funded mergers after AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner was cleared last week....
...Its global headcount is 5,500, nearly one-fifth of Time Warner’s and one-50th of AT&T’s. Netflix does not have the size to build as large in-house AI capabilities....
...the bottom of the investment-grade rating scale — a group made up of BBB+, BBB, and BBB — to continue to fund large acquisitions in the debt markets, a trend summed up by AT&T’s $80bn takeover of Time Warner...
...Related links: AT&T may not be confident of a quick Time Warner resolution -- FT Alphaville AT&T faces $1.1bn in payouts over Time Warner bid funding -- FT The DOJ's case against the AT&T/...
...Randy Bullard, Alexandra Aguirre, Enrique Conde, and Juan Delgado are all joining the firm from Greenberg Traurig....
...While investors have been ' hoping for float' -- floating rates, that is -- the approval of the AT&T-Time Warner merger could clear the path for more loan-financed vertical merger megadeals....
...AT&T is servicing roughly $30bn of debt that it sold last year to fund the proposed $85.4bn purchase of Time Warner, the owner of the HBO television channel and Warner Brothers studio....
...In March, AT&T exploited similar duelling provisions to avoid $17.5m of payments on an SMR bond issued to fund its Time Warner deal, which has been challenged by the Trump administration....
...And while there has been some uncertainty about regulatory treatment of deals, the upcoming decision about AT&T’s proposed purchase of Time Warner could spark more activity, depending on the outcome....
...Time Warner owns CNN, the news network that has been a target of extensive White House critcism, including a video in which the network's logo was superimposed onto the body of a guy “taken down” by...
...The DoJ is challenging AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time-Warner in court, and in March the White House blocked a deal between chipmakers Qualcomm and Broadcom....
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