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Paramount challenges Netflix

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Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid worth more than 100 billion dollars in a last ditch effort to stop its sale to Netflix. Leanna Byrne asks, what does Netflix need to do to get the deal done?

Also, China is running a massive trade surplus, and other countries aren't happy about it.

And Elon Musk escalates his clash with the European Commission after an EU fine over blue tick badges.
8 Dec 11AM English United Kingdom Business

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