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Wall Street is foaming at the mouth with all the possible mergers and acquisitions that may now go through with Trump as president

Goldman Sachs expects a 20% increase in M&A activity next year.

Fortune

Dealmakers Ponder What's Next After Tough Biden Antitrust Years

President Joe Biden's skeptical approach to corporate mergers has been a hallmark of his administration's business policy -- a stance generally expected to ease if Donald Trump returns to the White House.

International Business Times

US Alleges Software Scheme To Raise Rent Prices

US prosecutors unveiled sweeping antitrust charges Friday against a property management software company that they allege employs algorithms to enable collusion among landlords, harming renters across numerous US markets.

International Business Times

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DOJ alleges RealPage helped landlords inflate rents - Roll Call

The Justice Department and eight states on Friday sued real estate company RealPage, alleging the company helped landlords collude on rents.

Roll Call

We know the Google antitrust ruling is huge, but we don’t know what it really means yet

Consumers could see hardly any changes at all, or they could see Google being split up.

Fortune

The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense

The American economy is still growing. There is no reason to panic, despite Trump’s ‘world war three’ comments

The Guardian - US

Top antitrust official raises red flag on personalized dynamic pricing and warns of biggest 'extraction of monopoly power' ever

"Companies are getting better at figuring out how to maximize profits. The more information they have about who you are and what you’re willing to pay, the more they can charge you."

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AI's regulatory troubles pile up as U.S. prepares antitrust probes and activists target Meta over privacy

The Justice Department will reportedly tackle Nvidia, with the Federal Trade Commission taking on OpenAI and Microsoft.

Fortune

Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws

US regulators open inquiry into AI firms over antitrust laws that oversee fair competition

The Guardian - UK

‘Strong likelihood’ ECB is in dialling back phase, says Lagarde, after first rate cut since 2019 – as it happened

European Central Bank lowers borrowing costs for first time in almost five years, but won’t pre-commit to further cuts

The Guardian - UK

News Publishers Try To Sic the Government on Google AI

A journalism industry trade group is asking the federal government to thwart a tech tool that could make news publishing less profitable.

Reason

The US sues Apple for monopoly antitrust violations, says the company has smothered an entire industry

US Attorneys General have filed suit that Apple is locking in users, hurting development, and making smartphone worse.

TechRadar

Apple Stock Drops As Justice Department Sues iPhone Maker

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Apple, accusing the consumer electronics giant of violating antitrust laws.

Investors Business Daily

FTC and Justice Department double down on strategy to go after corporate monopolies

New guidelines from the FTC and Justice Department are part of a broader push to promote competition and limit what the White House sees as excessive consolidation.

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The Week

Microsoft, Activision and the battle with competition tsars

In a “striking show of leniency by a notoriously tough regulator”, the European Commission has approved Microsoft’s $69bn megadeal with games-maker Activision Blizzard, said DealBook in The New York Times – just weeks after the UK’s competition regulator threw it out.

Los Angeles Times

Warner Bros. Discovery called out for scrapping Latino programs, cutting CNN jobs after merger

Four Democrats in Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, alleging the deal is responsible for "hollowing out an iconic American studio."

Tribune News Service

US sues Google to break up ad unit in heated antitrust fight

The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.

Reason

The Courts Are Rejecting Biden's Antitrust Crusade

The Biden administration's antitrust efforts are being shut down by judges, except for a single successful case where best-selling authors were involved.

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Financial Times

Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2023

What to look for this year in the corporate world in sectors from energy to private capital and technology

Los Angeles Times

Judge blocks Penguin Random House takeover of Simon & Schuster

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.

Axios

Judge blocks $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The DOJ has argued that the merger violates antitrust law and would harm competition.

Tribune News Service

DOJ antitrust losses in court are seen as setback for Biden’s merger crackdown

In the span of just a month, federal judges rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s attempts to block three mergers in the health technology, agriculture and defense contracting industries.

Axios

FTC's new stance: Litigate, don't negotiate

Agency head Lina Khan says she'll sue to stop anticompetitive mergers rather than negotiate settlements.

Axios

Larry Summers' new inflation target: Biden's "hipster" antitrust policies

Larry Summers is criticizing BIden's antitrust police on inflation, including the FTC and DoJ.

The Independent UK

US regulators aiming at illegal and anticompetitive mergers

U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations

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