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Britain’s mergers regulator today
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blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover bid
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The decision
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The deal risks “undermining the innovation” happening in cloud gaming,
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the C.M.A. said, by giving control of popular game titles to Microsoft, which owns the Xbox platform. (Cloud gaming isn’t reliant on users owning expensive consoles.) The regulator wasn’t swayed by promises from Microsoft — which already accounts for up to 70 percent of cloud gaming — to give access to its top games to rivals like Sony and Nintendo.
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Combining Microsoft and Activision could lead to higher prices and fewer choices for consumers, the regulator concluded: “Microsoft already enjoys a powerful position and head start over other competitors in cloud gaming and this deal would strengthen that advantage giving it the ability to undermine new and innovative competitors,” Martin Coleman, who chaired a panel that conducted an investigation for the C.M.A., said in a statement.
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Microsoft pledged to plow ahead,
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with its president, Brad Smith, saying that the company would appeal. “This decision appears to reflect a flawed understanding of this market and the way the relevant cloud technology actually works,” he said in a statement.
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But the path to completing the deal just became harder.
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Microsoft would be hard-pressed to seal the takeover without winning approval in Britain, which has a sizable video-game market. Moreover, appealing a decision by the C.M.A. requires meeting a high bar, since that process looks mainly at whether the regulator acted rationally and lawfully.
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Revelations that the Supreme Court justice
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A top Citigroup banker leaves after revelations of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Investors are worried about the cost of the bank’s funding.
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It borrowed about $92 billion from the Federal Reserve and government-backed lending groups, like Federal Home Loan Banks. The problem is that the loans come at a higher cost than customer deposits, and the bank is unable to use the funds to do business, as it could with customer deposits.
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Policymakers are watching closely.
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Things could get worse before they get better.
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Deposit outflows have stabilized, but analysts say yesterday’s share price free fall could spur another run. Before First Republic reported its earnings, “I would have said that it seems like there’s a good chance they can muddle along,” David Smith of Autonomous Research told DealBook. “I think the concern now is that, with the deposit picture being so much worse than people had feared, does that spark another round of outflows?”
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Can McCarthy avert debt-limit “chaos”?
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has vowed to bring a vote as soon as today on a Republican bill to lift the debt ceiling, even though party support for the measure remains far from certain.
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Time is of the essence.
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“The debt limit is now front and center. Lawmakers have less time than expected,”
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Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s, told DealBook. Zandi and other economists project the U.S. will reach the debt limit as soon as early June — not August, as estimated previously. That creates even more pressure to reach a speedy legislative resolution — or “more chaos” could ensue, Zandi said.
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. Yellen predicted that failure to reach a deal would result in borrowing costs rising, along with payments on auto loans, mortgages and credit cards. She also said that military and Social Security payments would stop and credit markets would deteriorate. She called on Congress to raise or suspend the limit without conditions. “It should not wait until the last minute,” Yellen said.
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Even if McCarthy succeeds in getting the legislation passed, President Biden yesterday threatened to veto the measure if it makes it to his desk. The impasse increases the odds of an emergency measure to temporarily suspend the debt limit for a few weeks, Zandi said. “It’s likely they’ll kick the can down the road and push the day of reckoning to September.”
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“Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that.”
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When Anheuser-Busch InBev reports its quarterly results next week, Michel Doukeris, the brewer’s C.E.O., may face his toughest questioning yet about the company’s deepening U.S. problems.
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AB InBev said yesterday that two executives were on
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The backlash was swift.
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Bud Light sales have fallen amid calls for a boycott from conservative lawmakers and celebrities. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has made a habit of attacking companies whose politics he disagrees with, weighed in too: “It’s part of a larger thing where corporate America is trying to change our country.”
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AB InBev is the latest consumer brand to become embroiled in America’s culture wars. DeSantis, a potential G.O.P. presidential candidate, has also fought with Disney after it criticized the state’s so-called “don’t say gay” law.
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Sales were already lagging in North America.
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The region had been AB In Bev’s worst-performing market by volume of beer sold, and Bud Light sales were falling. “This just steepens that curve of decline,” Harry Schuhmacher
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,
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the publisher of Beer Business Daily,
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Doukeris has been largely silent.
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He told The Financial Times, before the controversy erupted, that he tried to
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and that it was not necessary for the company to be “out there and talking about everything.” But on April 14, Brendan Whitworth, the company’s North American C.E.O.,
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