(Benzinga) -
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Bloomberg L.P. has no interest in acquiring either Dow Jones or the Washington Post, a Bloomberg L.P. spokesman tweeted.
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Bloomberg owner Michael Bloomberg retweeted spokesman Ty Trippet's message denying acquisition conversations with anyone or either organization, Reuters reports.
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Reportedly Bloomberg was interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal's parent company Dow Jones from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) or the Washington Post from Amazon.com Inc's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Jeff Bezos.
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A spokesperson for the Washington Post, which Bezos snapped in 2013, said it was not for sale.
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Antitrust experts agreed that the merger of Bloomberg and Dow Jones business news divisions would draw the scrutiny of U.S. regulators.
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Thomson Reuters Corp owned Reuters competes with Dow Jones and Bloomberg News.
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Price Action: NWSA shares closed higher by 2.81% at $18.31 on Monday.
By Anusuya Lahiri
