Dec 25 (Reuters) – Bloomberg L.P. has little interest in buying both Dow Jones or the Washington Put up, a Bloomberg L.P. spokesman stated in a tweet.
“There have been no conversations with anybody or both group about an acquisition,” spokesman Ty Trippet stated within the tweet, which was retweeted by billionaire proprietor Michael Bloomberg.
Information web site Axios reported on Friday that Bloomberg was interested by buying both Wall Road Journal mother or father firm Dow Jones from Rupert Murdoch’s Information Corp (NWSA.O), or the Washington Put up from Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) Jeff Bezos, citing a supply accustomed to Bloomberg’s considering.
On Friday, citing sources, Reuters reported Michael Bloomberg had expressed a need to personal a big-name newspaper over time however had not reached out to Murdoch to debate a doable buy of Dow Jones and its flagship paper the Journal.
A spokesperson for the Washington Put up, which Bezos purchased in 2013 for $250 million, stated on Friday it was not on the market.
Antitrust specialists agreed the merger of Bloomberg and Dow Jones enterprise information divisions would draw the scrutiny of U.S. regulators, particularly because the Biden administration has taken a extra muscular strategy to implementing antitrust legal guidelines.
Reuters, a part of Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO), competes with Dow Jones and Bloomberg Information, a unit of Bloomberg L.P., a supplier of monetary information.
Reporting by Lavanya Ahire in Bengaluru; Extra reporting by Ira Iosebashvili; Modifying by Diane Craft
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