Zee slumps 10% after Sony scraps $10 billion India merger

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Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. tumbled as much as 10% after the cancellation of a planned $10 billion merger with..

At least nine brokers including Citigroup Inc and CLSA reduced their ratings on the stock as efforts to create an entertainment giant in Asias biggest streaming market collapsed amid a stalemate over who will head the combined entity.. dropped as low as 208.3 rupees in Mumbai, the worst performer on the S&P BSE 500 Index..

The stock trades at about 21 times its 12-month forward estimated earnings, versus 17 times in September 2021, just before the company announced it had agreed to merge with a Sony Group entity, data compiled by Bloomberg show...

Sony was expected to benefit from Zees deep library of content in regional Indian languages and dozens of local television channels..

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