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...Apple last month told music companies that it would pay up to 10 per cent more in royalties for songs produced in spatial audio....
...In the letter, Shah complained about how competitor Moderna’s market value was 10 times 2024 sales, while Novavax’s market capitalisation was below its 2024 sales....
...Netflix began disclosing more about its shows’ performance in 2021, when it started releasing its weekly Top 10 and Most Popular lists....
...Its licensing business revenue grew by close to two-thirds, with royalties increasing by a fifth to $1.5bn. Amon said Qualcomm had not spoken to SoftBank about a potential investment in Arm....
...That paid off as the company’s stock price soared from under $10 a share to nearly $600 between 2010 and the end of 2021. But since that apex, Domino’s market value has dropped nearly a third....
...ExxonMobil has reappointed Bart Cahir as the head of its shale business after his successor David Scott was charged with sexual assault earlier this month....
...Shares in Devon closed down more than 10 per cent the day after its earnings report revealed higher than expected capital spending to cover production costs at the end of 2022 and the company said spending...
...Ubisoft shares were up nearly 10 per cent on Tuesday....
...Then, in the shale bust of 2014-16, many energy firms once rated low-IG slid to high-HY, becoming one of the biggest segments in HY....
...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....
...They include shale producer Continental Resources, Gulf of Mexico-focused oil company Talos Energy and Phillips 66, an oil refiner....
...On Tuesday, US gas was trading at about $8.40 a million British thermal units, although that is down from a recent high of $10 a million Btu....
...Or like for D&D though, it was 10 out of 10. Everyone knows D&D . . ....
...Actors and writers are usually paid royalties over the life of a show, but streamers negotiated a considerable discount on those payments....
...The prototype, which West wore at the Grammy’s, went for $1.8mn at a private sale; its successor sold out in 10 minutes when it was released in 2014, retailing at $245....
...Contrast that with billionaire shale tycoon Harold Hamm doubling down on his oil and gas business....
...It takes a cut of just 10 to 15 per cent from artists for downloads and sales of vinyl, CDs and merchandise....
...So it paid $7bn in royalties in 2021. As a result, it is a low-margin business. Spotify last year made just €94mn in operating income on €9.7bn in revenue....
...The royalty is capped at €12,500....
...Only one in 10 of the FTSE 100 companies it looked at referred to staff pensions in their sustainability plans....
...Higher input costs have already driven up prices for modules and wind turbines by at least 10 per cent, according to the IEA....
...Go deeper Soaring energy prices are reviving the US shale oil industry and yesterday Whiting Petroleum and Oasis Petroleum, two US shale oil producers, agreed a $6bn merger....
...But the shale boom has made the industry a key contributor to the public purse in states such as North Dakota and New Mexico....
...Sales from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips are currently running at $10.8bn for the year to date, compared with $5.8bn for the same period last year, Bourron finds....
...In the last week, Rusal unveiled “ultra-low” carbon Budweiser cans, Royal Dutch Shell sold a big chunk of its US shale holdings and Nespresso promised to make its coffee carbon neutral....
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