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A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery to halt their $81bn merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging…

A last-ditch effort to block the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is heading to court as 12 Democratic state attorneys general attempt…

A bipartisan group of US state attorneys general are seeking to block the $110bn merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, arguing in a lawsuit…

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has decided to approve the $111bn merger of Paramount Skydance, controlled by the Ellison family, and Warner Bros Discovery, the parent…

US stock market opens higherWall Street has opened higher, as technology shares continue to recover from last week’s sell-off.The S&P 500 shares index has risen by…

Shareholders of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) voted “overwhelmingly” to approve the company’s $110bn merger with Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News, on Thursday.But shareholders…

The CEO of United Airlines is said to have pitched a blockbuster merger with American Airlines during a meeting with Donald Trump, floating the combination of…

Eight states asked a US judge on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order to stop a $3.5bn merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna.On Thursday,…

Changes are likely ahead at the federal level to ease mergers and acquisitions in the higher education sector, Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said earlier this…

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”.The merged entity will be the…