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By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -Walt Disney and DirecTV announced they have reached an agreement in principle on Saturday, restoring college football and other programming to the satellite TV provider’s more than 11 million subscribers. The deal affords satellite TV subscribers greater choice and flexibility, the companies said in a joint statement. DirecTV customers had lost …

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By Anirban Sen (Reuters) – Telecom operator AT&T and its joint-venture partner TPG are in early-stage talks to merge their DirecTV satellite TV service with EchoStar owned Dish, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The two companies first attempted to merge back in 2002 when the U.S. Justice Department blocked the …

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By Gleb Bryanski, Darya Korsunskaya and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian officials and managers are perplexed by President Vladimir Putin’s surprise threat to limit exports of strategic commodities in response to Western sanctions, and wonder if it can be realised without hurting Russia more than the West. Putin made the suggestion 23 minutes into …

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By Allison Lampert and Abhijith Ganapavaram (Reuters) -A strike beginning Friday by more than 30,000 of Boeing’s U.S. West Coast factory workers will make it harder for the planemaker to meet a 737 MAX production target and stabilize its supply chain, CFO Brian West said on Friday. West also told the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference …

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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve is in focus next week, as uncertainty swirls over how much the U.S. central bank will cut interest rates at its monetary policy meeting and the pace at which it will reduce borrowing costs in coming months. The S&P 500 index is just 1% shy …

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By Valerie Volcovici and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that Archer-Daniels-Midland violated federal safe drinking water rules and its underground injection permit with a leak at the first major U.S. underground carbon sequestration facility in Illinois, the agribusiness company confirmed on Friday. The Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and …

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