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Behind Paramount’s pivot is a desperate scramble to bolster its legal case and muster funds to help finance a deal Warner shareholders approved in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

University of Utah finance professor Michael Cooper and his colleagues have just posted an update that finds an abnormal boost of up to 90 percentage points in the short run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Crowds have been flocking from all over the world to northern Spain for the event with half a million visitors expected, according to the finance ministry.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The chip maker announces partnerships with Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, Brookfield, and KKR to finance data centers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Alas, there was a difference between fantasy football and fantasy finance: When a fantasy football player drafts Peyton Manning to be on his team, he doesn’t create a second Peyton Manning.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Among those was a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises -- long a guarantee of lifelong so-called "iron rice bowl" employment for millions but which drained public finances.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

“We can see where personal finances gain the most ground against rising prices, and where income is either helping residents keep up or maybe failing to keep up,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

He said independence "would be disastrous for the nation's finances".

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Someone with aphasia may still enjoy playing chess, completing sudoku puzzles, or managing a family's finances.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

He had a knack for pulling together a group of artistic people, guiding them in staging a play, raising money, and managing the finances.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz has said the projects were partially financed with nickel revenues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

If just half that is financed by bonds, that’s 15% of the historical annual gross issuance of non-financial companies worldwide.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

The firm is currently financed through project-level debt and equity, corporate equity commitments, and strategic capital from partners seeking exposure to AI-ready infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Sizable deals, as well as deals financed in large part by debt, have higher failure rates — and both are true about the Paramount-Warner deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Once he had financed Gay to go for turtles.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink likened the current moment in financing of AI “compute” to the beginning of his career, when banks and investment firms pioneered the mortgage-backed securities market in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In addition, Paramount said that delaying the transaction until next spring will add $190 million in bridge loan financing costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The company’s AI financing strategy has been an overhang on the stock this year, as it has turned to debt and equity issuances to fund its cloud buildout.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Nvidia stock was rising as the market digested its AI hardware financing plan and ARK Invest's Cathie Wood bought shares.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Cleopatra, who would be financing the expedition, may have helped with the strategizing, too.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby