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Billionaires in Sun Valley hunt for next AT&T-Time Warner

Bloomberg At least one media mogul is expecting to see a lot more deals like AT&T Inc.’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner Inc., and the seeds for such megamergers could be planted this week in a resort town in Idaho. Pay-TV providers and phone companies like AT&T are realizing they need exclusive programming to set themselves apart in a ...

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Local partnership key to US success over IS

What lessons can we take from the IS’s defeat in Mosul and its coming eviction from Raqqa? The collapse of the ‘caliphate’ tells us that the US can succeed militarily in the Middle East if — and probably only if — it works with local forces who are prepared to do the fighting and dying. Where the massive US ground ...

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India sees your bond bubble, will raise you a green one

There’s a green bubble in India, with investors flocking to fund a planned tripling of renewable energy capacity over the next five years. Luckily for Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the more gung-ho backers of solar, wind and hydroelectric power in the country, there’s a bigger bubble out there — in global bond markets — that’s allowing the green ...

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