Financials

Telecom and media giant AT&T will now accept cryptocurrencies as a payment option through BitPay.

At first glance, it looks like a $9 trillion time bomb is ready to detonate, a corporate debt load that has escalated thanks to easy borrowing terms and a seemingly endless thirst from investors. On Wall Street, though, hopes are fairly high that it's a manageable problem, at least for the next year or two.

Tribune Media terminated its merger agreement with rival TV station-owner Sinclair Broadcast Group and sued the company, alleging it failed to make sufficient efforts to get their $3.9 billion deal approved by regulators. Changed.

Consumer sentiment in the U.S. deteriorated by slightly more than initially estimated in the month of October, the University of Michigan revealed in a report released on Friday.

Nasdaq AB, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Nasdaq, Inc. (NDAQ), published the offer document for its public offer to acquire all of the issued shares of Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA for NOK 152 per share.

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WASHINGTON — Sales of new U.S. homes slumped 1.7 percent in July, the second straight monthly decline as the broader housing market appears to have lost some of its momentum despite an otherwise so…

Visa has launched a new ePayment processing system called VisaNet in Argentina, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 29). The company said the new service will bring new ways to pay and new services to Argentinian cardholders, shopkeepers and banking institutions. The launch will increase Visa’s slice of the domestic transaction pie in the region...

Source: www.streetinsider.com Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. has announced the acquisition of SI Financial Group Inc. (SIFI) and its subsidiary Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company,...

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