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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  03/4/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. Justice Department will not appeal AT&T, Time Warner merger after court loss.  AT&T Inc, emerged victorious on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s drawn-out attempts to block its $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner as the U.S. Justice Department said it would not fight an appeals court...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  02/25/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

EU's Vestager says not precluding Facebook case in future.  Facebook is not currently in EU regulators’ crosshairs but it may well be in future because of the crucial role played by data, Europe’s antitrust chief said on Tuesday. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s comments came...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  02/18/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

German govt adviser proposes broader view of EU antitrust rules.  European Union antitrust rules could be reformed to introduce a two-stage review of mergers that would examine competition issues and then broader public interests, said the head of a German commission tasked with coming up with reforms...				 
				 				
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Posted  02/11/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

House panel passes bill targeting OPEC oil supply cuts. A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved a bill on Thursday that would open up the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to antitrust lawsuits, but it was uncertain if the measure would be considered by the full chamber. A U.S....				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  02/4/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Democratic lawmaker re-introduces bills to strengthen antitrust.  Senator Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said on Friday that she had re-introduced two bills aimed at strengthening enforcement of U.S. antitrust law. One of the bills would adjust fees...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  01/28/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

E.U. Fines Mastercard $650 Million Over Fees Merchants Were Forced to Pay.  The European Commission has fined Mastercard 571 million euros, or around $650 million, for breaching antitrust rules by raising payment-processing fees artificially, leading to higher prices for retailers and consumers. The...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  01/22/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

F.T.C. Is Said to Be Considering Large Facebook Fines.  The Federal Trade Commission is in the advanced stages of its investigation into whether Facebook violated privacy rules and is expected to seek large fines from the company, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.  The five members of...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  01/14/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

HSBC to pay $30 million to settle bond rigging lawsuit in U.S.  HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $30 million to settle litigation by investors who accused 11 big banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market from 2009 to 2015. The settlement with the British bank was made...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  01/7/19
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Qualcomm kicks off crucial fight with U.S. antitrust regulator. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case accusing Qualcomm Inc. of abusing a monopoly on mobile chip technology kicked off in a California courtroom on Friday in a trial whose outcome could have a major impact on the smartphone...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  12/17/18
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

CVS defends settlement that allowed Aetna merger as judge assesses.  CVS Health Corp. defended on Friday an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department which allowed it to purchase health insurer Aetna for $69 billion, a settlement that a federal judge is still assessing. The Justice Department approved...				 
				 					 

						
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