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...The two sides are arguing over issues as varied as the potential role of AI in writing scripts to the size of royalties for streaming programmes....
...Berkshire also purchased 2.3mn shares in Chevron, lifting the value of its stake in the oil major to more than $23bn; 9.5mn shares in Paramount; and 22.2mn shares in Occidental....
...Pfizer will pay Valneva tiered royalties of up to 22 per cent, which will be complemented by up to $100mn in payments to Valneva if certain sales milestones are reached, the companies said in a statement...
...He didn’t like shale because he thought that shale gas and ultimately American shale gas would compete with his gas, which was the case....
...It has already lost several big cases including a $4.7bn damages award by a Missouri court to 22 woman who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in the drugmaker’s baby powder....
...Hipgnosis, the music royalties fund, has launched a share placing aimed at raising £150m for buying more songbooks....
...Last June it sold its holdings in 22 coal companies....
...The listing is on pace to be the second-largest US IPO of the year excluding cash shell companies, behind Royalty Pharma, which raised $2.2bn in June....
...On the penultimate day, Rob and the Ledbury Ladies led their horses up a shale mountain, summiting just before the 8.30pm riding curfew....
...“We hear about the American shale all the time, but we don’t hear about Brazil being an energy exporter....
...Marron, whose roles included chief executive of PaineWebber Inc, founded the bank’s corporate art collection (which became the UBS Art Collection)....
...sold a majority stake in her firm to Coty Inc for $600m in November, just in case anyone thought selling lipstick to teens on Instagram was a sideline....
...With shareholders due to vote on a replacement on May 22, shareholder activists are mobilising to change the way the company operates....
...We expect DC to deliver an EPS CAGR (FY20-22E) of 22% as a result of the above....
...This is reflected in users listening habits: Mark Mulligan at MIDIA Research estimates 22.5 per cent of the views for the top music videos come from versions other than the original recording....
...Every day they are beset by tax and royalty demands by their host governments, not to mention ever-tightening environmental regulations....
...The bond sales have helped finance increased activity in US shale reserves....
...Rystad Energy, a consultancy, says production costs at mines have almost halved from $39 to $22 per barrel between 2014 and 2016, while in situ plants’ production costs have dropped from $18 to about $11...
...Dunkin’ Brands reiterated its 2017 fiscal outlook of earnings per share in the range of $2.22 to $2.30....
...The decline stemmed from an exit of an upstream asset in Marcellus shale, though the company met expectations on revenue....
...Nymex June WTI rose modestly Friday to end at $46.22 a barrel, but ended the week down 6.3 per cent....
...Digital download sales slipped 22 per cent last year to $1.8bn, while physical album sales lost 21 per cent to $1.2bn....
...Sprint shares rose 3.3 per cent to $9.22 at midday in New York, defying declines in the broader stock market....
...There can only be one winner in the case of the actor Harry Shearer v Vivendi, the French media group, over royalties from the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap....
...Mr Shearer — who went on to voice Ned Flanders and Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons — alleged fraud and breach of contract over unpaid royalties....
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