Posts tagged: News Corp

How News Corp, Fitch and Moody's can save themselves £1 billion...

Thursday, 14 March 2019, 11:39 am

I was intrigued to read in yesterday's venerable Financial Times that the likes of News Corp, Fitch, Moody's and S&P Global are queing up to pay £1 billion of the owner of Mergermarket, one of Betaville's first employers. Below is a link to the FT piece:

https://www.ft.com/content/5a79d412-444d-11e9-a965-23d669740bfb..

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Murdoch in first major UK M&A deal post Brexit with £220 million talkSport buy; Sky next?

Thursday, 30 June 2016, 12:00 am

Perhaps those (I have to include myself here) predicting a slowdown in UK M&A post Brexit spoke too soon.

News Corp - the publishing company controlled by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch - has just announced it is purchasing Talksport-owner Wireless Group for £220 million. Here is a link to the regulatory news service announcement:..

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