Nation
By William James and Kate Abnett BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a keynote speech at the COP29 climate summit to lash out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry, saying it had been the victim of a “well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail”. The comments…
By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -Attorneys general from about two dozen U.S. states are seeking treble damages against Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:) and its ticket-selling unit, Ticketmaster, for allegedly monopolizing markets across the live concert industry in an updated version of a lawsuit originally filed in May. The U.S.…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit have been hit with the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class action to piggyback on the government…
By Sarah N. Lynch, David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists.…
