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Posted Apr 26, 2023 at 2:21 PM UTC

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“There he is, that’s the CMA.”

Stock market graph showing the stock price of Activision Blizzard taking a huge dip after the news that the UK’s CMA is blocking the Microsoft / Activision Blizzard acquisition

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