PRESS DIGEST-Wall Street Journal - October 31
The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Disney DIS.N channels including ESPN, ABC and FX vanished from Google's GOOGL.O YouTube TV platform after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new distribution agreement.
- Canadian private-equity firm Onex is teaming up with American International Group to buy privately-held property and casualty insurer Convex for $7 billion.
- CoreWeave plans CRWV.O to buy Core Scientific CORZ.O in an all-stock transaction valued at about $9 billion flopped.
- Fresnillo FRES.L said it has agreed to buy Canadian exploration company Probe Gold PRB.TO in a roughly $560 million cash deal that gives it a foothold in the Canadian gold sector.
- Related Companies will build a more than $7 billion data-center campus in Saline Township, Michigan, for Oracle ORCL.N and OpenAI's Stargate project.
- The Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs.
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