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James Murdoch launches SPAC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... Murdoch has filed papers to launch a US$300 million blank cheque company, which will focus on investing in Asia. James Murdoch, the younger son of Rupert Murdoch and former chief executive of 21 st Century Fox, is working with Uday Shankar, the former ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... Century Fox fell 0.2 per cent on news that chief executive Rupert Murdoch plans to step down and hand the job to his son James, with James' elder brother Lachlan becoming executive chairman. Dow member Nike advanced 0.5 per cent after announcing an eight-year ...

Gina gets richer but falls down list

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... family. She was the world's fifth richest woman on the list and easily Australia's richest person, ahead of 208th-ranked James Packer with $7.30 billion. Australian-born media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his family climbed 13 places to 78th, with $15.17 ...

Murdoch defies shareholder sentiment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... banded with investment bodies from the UK, Europe and the US to oust the controversial figure from his role and prevent sons James and Lachlan from remaining on the board. As many as two thirds of investors - with voting rights outside Murdoch's immediate ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Australia's timber, pulp, paper, and furniture industries will also try and block the election of four directors including James and Lachlan Murdoch. Leading the calls to have Murdoch replaced as chairman are the US-based Christian Brothers Investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... strains on Spain and poor investor sentiment in Germany. In equities news, News Ltd has made a $1.97 billion takeover bid for James Packer's Consolidated Media Holdings. Consolidated Media owns 25 per cent of Foxtel and has a 50 per cent stake in Fox ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... as its proposed acquisition of a largely untapped mine looks likely to go ahead, a UK newspaper reports. LONDON - James Murdoch has been re-elected as the chairman of British broadcaster BSkyB, but critics who wanted him to resign over the phone hacking ...

ACSI helps push News Corp negative vote to 35%

ALEX DUNNIN, CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... one-third of votes cast against the current board. Among the board directors to receive significant negative votes, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Natalie Bancroft, Andrew Knight and Arthur Siskind achieved votes against them of up to 35%. Chairman ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... close of $US1,604.60. Newcrest shares were 37 cents lower at $40.23. News Corp stocks were down again, too, after James Murdoch overnight was accused of misleading British MPs this week regarding the extent of his knowledge of phone hacking at News of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... said. "The market loved it; everything is in the green." The two top performing stocks were building products suppliers James Hardie and Boral, after data from the US showed an increase in home building. James Hardie rose 37 cents, or 6.5 per cent,to ...
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