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In February, Frontier Airlines and Spirit announced plans to merge, promising to create a national budget airline that would help keep fares low. But this week, JetBlue Airways swooped in with a $3.6 billion all-cash bid for Spirit, a significantly higher offer than Frontier’s cash-and-stock deal.
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Either offer will attract close regulatory scrutiny. They will also test the way that trustbusters review deals, as officials increasingly consider more than just market share,
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The deal is the latest example of a bidding war in which antitrust scrutiny plays a leading role.
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Frontier’s bid for Spirit is lower than JetBlue’s, but Frontier argues that its deal offers more regulatory certainty, given that JetBlue is bigger and focuses on higher-priced fares. This is a sign of the times — see the fight over
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“Both deals present a new challenge to antitrust agencies,”
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A new face on the Supreme Court.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Tesla will begin production of its Cybertruck next year.
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Elon
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Musk
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unveiled the electric truck
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The blockbuster deal brings together a major movie studio, responsible for franchises like Harry Potter and Batman, with TV production units, including TLC, HGTV, and Food Network, and the news network CNN. Over time, the companies’ streaming services, HBO Max and Discovery+, are expected to combine into one platform.
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Jason Kilar
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— Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor, on Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett. Thiel was
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In early March, the market for wheat stopped working. Trading was halted, restarted and halted again. Prices for a key futures contract were essentially frozen because there were no buyers or sellers. It went on for days.
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The market is functioning again, but wheat traders are still trying to piece together what happened,
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It was the “wheat whale.”
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A trader took a large position in wheat and got stuck (or, uh, beached). All eyes are on an exchange-traded fund, the Teucrium Wheat Fund. In early March, investors piled into the E.T.F., guessing that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would drive up wheat prices, since both countries are large wheat producers. Some speculate that the fund, which buys only futures contracts, couldn’t cope with the volume and blew up the contract for May delivery (it traded “limit up” for several days in a row).
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The wheat market went meme.
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On March 7, a user on Reddit observed that the price of wheat was soaring: “I wouldn’t be surprised if we hit at least $20,” wrote a Reddit user with the handle “quarantrader.” A number of wheat traders are pointing to that message as the start of the turbulence: It happened with the so-called meme stocks GameStop and AMC, so why not wheat?
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Shorts got squeezed.
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Andrey Sizov, a grain analyst based in Russia, said hedge funds that placed bets on wheat prices falling were caught off-guard by the war. As they quickly covered their positions, the market ran out of sellers. But unlike in the
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Are monopolies making inflation worse?
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Many C.E.O.s cite rising energy costs, snarled supply chains and other factors for stubbornly high inflation. But some in progressive policymaking circles say there is another reason prices are rising: profiteering by dominant firms.
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Short-term factors like conflict and Covid give executives cover for raising prices, but a longer-term problem is that it is “nearly impossible” to prove price-fixing because of weakness in the law, said Krista Brown of the American Economic Liberties Project, an antitrust advocacy group. The group is proposing
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No explicit agreement is needed to create a “shared monopoly,”
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Hal Singer testified
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Shifting the burden of proof to defendants to show that they are
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Making it harder to dismiss cases based on circumstantial evidence.
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Barring people convicted of price-fixing violations from working in the industry where they broke the law.
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Preventing forced arbitration rather than litigation.
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Broadening an antitrust whistle-blower program.
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Could this idea gain momentum?
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The Biden administration has talked about
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excuse to overregulate
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A Russian strike on a crowded train station in eastern Ukraine left at least 39 people dead and nearly 90 wounded, leading to calls for more international sanctions on Moscow. (
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The U.S. stripped Russia of
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three Russian airlines
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A blueprint for how to rebuild Ukraine, by an
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Here’s the
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If a barrel of oil has just under 50 percent Russian crude, some oil companies say it doesn’t technically count as of Russian origin. (
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SPAC deal cancellations are up sixfold this year, as investors sour on blank-check transactions. (
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A $4.2 billion deal between Frontline and Euronav would create one of the world’s largest oil tanker owners. (
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Pfizer will buy drugmaker ReViral for up to $525 million, as it expands its work on infectious diseases. (
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Amazon intends to appeal the union victory last week at a warehouse in Staten Island. (
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The U.S. is years away from minting a digital dollar, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. (
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