Posts by Nathan Pine
WBD May Engage With Paramount After Ellisons’ Latest Offer As State Of Play Shifts
Warner Bros. Discovery could reveal as early as Tuesday that it will engage with Paramount following the Ellison family’s latest offer, which included some significant concessions, Deadline has learned. WBD has a signed deal with Netflix but Par has been lobbing consecutive unsolicited takeover offers, all rejected outright thus far. The amended bid with a…
Read MoreSavannah Guthrie Shares New Video As FBI Recovers DNA Sample From Potential Suspect: “It Is Never Too Late To Do The Right Thing”
It has been two weeks since the disappearance of broadcast journalist Savannah Guthrie‘s mother, Nancy Guthrie, from her home in Tucson, Ariz. In a new video posted today on Instagram, the Today co-anchor reaffirmed her hope in recovering her mom and pleaded for anyone connected to the abduction to come forward. “We still have hope,…
Read MoreAmova bets on ‘new Singapore’ sectors as MAS expands EQDP
It believes these industries represent the structural future of the country’s economy [SINGAPORE] Renewable energy, innovation-driven healthcare, technology-led infrastructure and financial services are among the key sectors Amova Asset Management is targeting under the Singapore’s Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP). The programme was expanded from S$5 billion to S$6.5 billion during Budget 2026. Amova was…
Read More‘Industry’s Myha’la & Ken Leung Unpack The Shakespearean Rise And Fall Of SternTao
“I will always remember you like this,” Myha’la’s Harper Stern says — voice quivering, her finger accusatorily pointing — to Eric (Ken Leung) when he dissolves SternTao in the latter half of Industry’s latest episode, “Dear Henry.” Doing so by way of a proxy lawyer, the bright-and-fast-burning inverse fund’s evaporation severs not just the duo’s…
Read MoreAlibaba leads tech slide after Pentagon briefly shows blacklist
The 1260H list now includes more than 130 entities accused of working with the Chinese military Published Mon, Feb 16, 2026 · 11:33 AM [HONG KONG] Alibaba Group Holding led a Chinese tech-share sell-off after the Pentagon added some of the country’s biggest names to a list of companies aiding the military, only to withdraw…
Read MoreAirAsia chief says brand unit is nearing Nasdaq backdoor listing
Published Mon, Feb 16, 2026 · 11:07 AM [KUALA LUMPUR] AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes said that the Asian airline’s branding unit is closing in on a Nasdaq-listed target for a backdoor listing later this year that would value the newly created entity at about US$1.5 billion. The deal, which will involve the merger of the…
Read MoreLaopu Gold, CMOC shares jump on addition to Hang Seng index
The reshuffle is closely watched as a sign of which listed companies have excelled across key metric Published Mon, Feb 16, 2026 · 10:42 AM [HONG KONG] Shares of Chinese jeweller Laopu Gold and miner CMOC Group rallied in Hong Kong, after Hang Seng Indexes added the stocks to Hong Kong’s equity benchmark gauge following…
Read MoreA family fights to keep control of 157-year-old firm in Japan
Nearly half of Japan’s listed companies are tied to a founding family, many of which no longer have enough equity to guarantee control [TOKYO] Ishikawa is a remote, mountainous prefecture bordering the Sea of Japan, but the fate of a drug store chain whose local roots go back to 1869 has implications for Tokyo’s financial…
Read MoreTravis Kelce Makes Playful Taylor Swift Reference in Valentine’s Day Post
Family is everything to Taylor and Travis, so the VIPs automatically include their respective parents and brothers. Presumable best man Jason Kelce also shares at least two flower girl-age daughters, Wyatt and Elliotte, with wife Kylie Kelce—though depending on when the big day is, little sister Bennett could grow into the role as well. (Alas,…
Read MoreStocks to watch: ThaiBev, Marco Polo Marine, Lendlease Reit, Centurion, HPL
[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Feb 16): Thai Beverage : The mainboard-listed company on Friday posted sales revenue for the first quarter ended Dec 31, 2025, of 86.7 billion baht (S$3.5 billion), down 6 per cent from 92.3 billion baht in the same year-ago…
Read MorePositive reaction to market reforms opens door to broader enhancement of growth capital sector
The result could be a bigger pipeline of new listings, and some struggling listed companies going private [SINGAPORE] Back in November, this column said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) ought to slow-walk the allocation of billions of dollars to fund managers under the Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP). With stock valuations becoming stretched, and…
Read MoreVisa-only Games highlights Europe’s payments headache
Published Mon, Feb 16, 2026 · 06:14 AM [MILAN] Anyone trying to buy a souvenir at the official Olympic stores at the Milano Cortina Games will have been exposed to an issue troubling Europe’s policymakers: the dominance of foreign payment providers and the fading role of cash. Under a sponsorship deal with the International Olympic…
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