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Deutsche Bank Upgrades Viacom (VIAB) to Buy (earlier)

August 14, 2019 3:06 PM EDT

Deutsche Bank analyst Bryan Kraft upgraded Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) from Hold to Buy with a price target of $42.00 (from $33.00).

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Shares of Viacom closed at $29.21 yesterday.

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BofA/Merrill Lynch Upgrades CBS (CBS) to Buy

August 14, 2019 6:47 AM EDT

BofA/Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich upgraded CBS (NYSE: CBS) from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $63.00 (from $58.00).

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Shares of CBS closed at $47.60 yesterday.

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Macquarie Downgrades Viacom (VIAB) to Neutral Following Merger Deal

August 14, 2019 4:48 AM EDT

Macquarie analyst Tim Nollen downgraded Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) from Outperform to Neutral with a price target of $31.00 (from $37.00).

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Shares of Viacom closed at $29.21 yesterday.

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ViacomCBS is just the beginning of Shari Redstone's media deals

August 13, 2019 2:56 PM EDT

By Kenneth Li

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than two months before CBS Corp and Viacom Inc succeeded at a third attempt to recombine, controlling shareholder Shari Redstone had already decided the new company needed to get bigger.

"We would want to look at something after that to ... develop more scale as we move forward, Redstone said at The Information's Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference in June.

To the audience of executives in the Times Square high rise overlooking the storied Paramount building, it was clear that her ambitions went well beyond the... More

CBS, Viacom agree to merge in all-stock deal

August 13, 2019 2:18 PM EDT

(Reuters) - CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS) and Viacom Inc (NASDAQ: VIAB) agreed to merge on Tuesday, creating a company with more than $28 billion in revenue, as an increasingly competitive media landscape prompted their controlling shareholder to reunify the U.S.... More

CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIAB) Confirm Merger

August 13, 2019 2:10 PM EDT

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB), two of the worlds leading entertainment companies, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger, creating a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue.

The combined company, ViacomCBS Inc., will be a leading global, multiplatform, premium content company, with the assets, capabilities and scale to be one of the most important content producers and providers in the world. The combined company will be a scale player globally, with leadership... More

CBS Corp. (CBS), Viacom (VIAB) reach merger deal - WSJ

August 13, 2019 2:00 PM EDT

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) reach merger deal - WSJ

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CBS Corp. (CBS) and Viacom (VIAB) are said to call the new company ViacomCBS - Bloomberg

August 13, 2019 1:40 PM EDT

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB) are said to call the new company ViacomCBS - Bloomberg

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