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Central banks' super week: Fed, ECB, BoJ seen holding; Canada may hike Moody’s spares France a downgrade as 10-year yield tops 5% Oil slips from six-month highs as Qatar mediates in Tehran China’s Fifth Plenum opens as AI exports mask weak home demand Lula wins, Brazil markets brace for shock sell-off; Tokyo Brazil ETF plunges ~15% Brazil votes today: Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in runoff Fed, ECB, BoJ Rate Decisions This Week: Holds Expected, December in Focus Oil is pricing in the next round of war. Brent tops $116 as Iran tensions drag Wall Street lower Global money is bidding for India's biggest growth stories while leaving India’s index

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Paramount's $111bn Warner Bros deal clears its last big hurdle

Paramount settled with 12 states to clear its $111B Warner Bros purchase, promising 30 films a year and $1.5B in extra production, with ~$80B of debt.

News | 27 September 2026

Paramount's $111bn Warner Bros deal clears its last big hurdle

With hurdles clear, soon the combined company owning Batman, Harry Potter and Top Gun, will merge HBO Max with Paramount+ .

Priced at $31 a share, David Ellison's Paramount Skydance deal for Warner Bros Discovery is set to close.

Paramount settled an antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 states, led by California. In return, Paramount promised to release at least 30 films a year in cinemas, spend an extra $1.5 billion on US production over five years, and set up an editorial independence board for CBS and CNN. The deal still needs a federal judge's sign-off, but that's not expected to be a hurdle.

The combined company will own Batman, Harry Potter and Top Gun, merge HBO Max with Paramount+, and carry about $80 billion of debt.

About $24 billion of the equity comes from Saudi, Qatari and Abu Dhabi investors. New York and Connecticut opposed the settlement, and one LA County report forecasts about 4,500 local job losses.