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  "id": 12422421,
  "title": "Skydance Credit Rating Cut By Fitch Citing Heavy Debt Load, Integration, Execution Risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/skydance-credit-rating-cut-by-fitch-citing-heavy-debt-load",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-06T16:49:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/skydance-debt-rating-cut-fitch-leverage-integration-risk-1237147630/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Fitch on Tuesday cut its debt rating on the new Skydance citing “significant execution and integration risks” and higher leverage of a merged Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal formally closed today. The downgrade Monday evening followed a similar move by S&P Global in late September. Ratings agencies and investors are fretting about leverage […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "Skydance Credit Rating Downgraded by Fitch on Massive Debt in Wake of Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/skydance-credit-rating-downgraded-by-fitch-on-massive-debt-in-wake-of",
        "published": "2026-10-06T16:56:16.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}