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Here's your midday brief for Monday, September 29th.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Electronic Arts is going private in a $55 billion deal,

marking the largest leverage buyout in financial history.

Saudi Arabia's public investment fund is expected to contribute the majority of the $36 billion equity investment, people familiar with the matter said, marking a continuation of its push into the video game industry.

Other investors include private equity firm Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's investment firm Affidney Partners.

EA stockholders will receive $210 a share in cash, a 25% premium to the company's

closing share price on Thursday, a day before the journal broke the news, the deal was in the works.

President Trump has announced he is imposing a 100% tariff on all films made outside of the U.S.,

following through on a threat he made earlier this

year against the movie industry. It's unclear exactly how these tariffs would work, given movies

aren't physical goods that travel through ports, like most other items subjected to tariffs.

Hollywood executives has said the plan could hurt the U.S. film industry if other countries

retaliate with their own tariffs, especially since production companies often film overseas for foreign tax incentives

and lower personnel costs. And the Trump administration is cracking down on companies that

pose national security risks by adding them to a trade blacklist, a move that threatens

hundreds of Chinese companies and marks

the latest salvo in the U.S.-China tech race.

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