Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - Sept 25

Smartsheet

25/09/2024 06:35

Sept 25 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories
and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    - Smartsheet  SMAR.N  has agreed to be taken private by
Blackstone  BX.N  and Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash
transaction valued at about $8.4 billion.
    
    - The U.S. Justice Department announced changes to the
guidance prosecutors use to assess a company's compliance
program when it comes under investigation for bribery, fraud or
other criminal offenses.
    
    - Grain terminal workers on Canada's west coast walked off
the job, threatening exports of canola and other crops during
the busy harvest season.
    
    - Caroline Ellison, the star witness in FTX founder Sam
Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, was sentenced to two years in
prison for her role in what prosecutors called one of the
largest financial frauds in history.
    
    - The Justice Department sued Visa  V.N  on allegations that
it illegally monopolized the market for consumers' payments
worth trillions of dollars every year, a sweeping antitrust
complaint that seeks to open the debit-card market to new
competition.

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