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Fox bondholders push back on Disney offer

Bloomberg Walt Disney Co is looking at ways to accommodate a group of 21st Century Fox Inc bondholders that say they are being wronged by a bond exchange deal as the two companies prepare to combine, according to a person familiar with the matter. Disney has offered to pay holders of $18.1 billion of Fox debt a small fee in ...

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Lime crashes in court bid to disrupt scooter scene

Bloomberg Lime, the electric scooter company valued at a $1 billion, lost its bid for a court order temporarily halting San Francisco’s plan to let two smaller companies operate after the city denied Lime a permit. But to Lime, a court decision not to block the city from launching its pilot program wasn’t all bad. The judge wants to “get ...

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Italy emerges as creeping concern among finance chiefs in Bali

Bloomberg As if trade wars, rising interest rates and slowing global growth weren’t enough, the world’s finance chiefs are zeroing in on another source of concern: Italy. The populist government’s rule-busting budget plans and accusatory rhetoric against its European partners have repeatedly cropped up among ministers and central bankers at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the ...

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