- Associated Press Finance
Reading the 'tea leaves': TV networks vamp for time during the wait for the Donald Trump verdict
Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is being held. Since the case began in mid-April, Fox News Channel’s daytime viewers are up 15% over last year at the same time, MSNBC is up 17% and CNN up 19%, according to the Nielsen company. “They could come out with a verdict between now and however long it takes them,” Newsmax reporter Christina Thompson said Thursday — the safest of hundreds of televised predictions since the jury began considering evidence.
- Yahoo Finance
Mortgage rates top 7% — again
Mortgage rates climbed past 7% this week after declining for almost a month.
- Variety
Skydance Media Revises Paramount Global Bid to Make It More Attractive to Non-Controlling Shareholders
After months of on-again-off-again haggling, Skydance Media submitted a revised offer for Paramount Global. The revised bid would reduce the amount Skydance and its financial partners would pay Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, and reallocate that more equitably to the company’s nonvoting shareholders, Variety has confirmed. Skydance would also put in more cash upfront to …
