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U.S. antitrust regulators appear ready to approve Paramount’s Warner Bros. takeover

Semafor has reported that U.S. antitrust regulators are poised to approve Paramount's $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery following a two-hour meeting at the Justice Department where staff attorneys ​appeared swayed by arguments from Paramount executives that ⁠the deal would not hurt other studios and creative talent. DOJ antitrust staff members quizzed Paramount CEO David Ellison on whether the combined company would be less inclined to send movies to big screens. Ellison reiterated a commitment to releasing movies in theaters, Semafor reports.

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Euro zone 'not facing systemic risk from private credit turbulence'

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said the euro zone is not facing systemic risk from recent turbulence in private credit but some areas of the financial system are exposed. "Euro area financial institutions appear to have limited direct exposure to ​private credit," the ECB said in a report. "This makes ⁠it unlikely that private credit in isolation could be a source of systemic financial instability ​at present." Nevertheless, "Insurance corporations and pension funds in particular could, in an adverse scenario, face more material ​second-round revaluation losses from broader spillovers to leveraged loans, high-yield bonds and equities," the ECB ​observed. Meanwhile, the bank warned that an AI-fuelled investment boom increasingly financed by private credit would create a new threat to the euro area’s financial system.

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