Saturday, 23 December 2017 9:11 amThis time last week Betaville was all aflutter after the Daily Mail splashed its business section and wrote a comment piece on the possiblity of Comcast making a £19 billion counter offer for FTSE 100-listed broadcaster Sky.
Monday, 18 December 2017 9:43 pmCrispin Odey is falling in with the hedgies at Polygon by calling for a higher offer from 21st Century Fox or its new owner - the Walt Disney Company. Ben Martin, a former colleague from my time at The Daily Telegraph and now a reporter at Reuters, managed to get the old buffer to talk about it on the record today. I have pasted Ben's piece below in case you missed it.
Sunday, 17 December 2017 12:15 pmTucked away at the back FT's market report, written by the excellent Bryce Elder, were a couple of lines about how hedge fund Polygon, presumably a shareholder in Sky, had gone public about wanting a higher offer for Sky.
