TRUMP'S LAWSUIT AGAINST WALL STREET JOURNAL THROWN OUT BY US JUDGE – COURT FILING

A US federal judge has dismissed former President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, according to a court filing. The ruling removes a pending legal action that carried potential financial exposure for the publisher and its parent, News Corp, and its direct market effect is limited to reducing headline-driven legal risk premia on media equities. The transmission channel is primarily idiosyncratic and sentiment-based rather than macro: a dismissal lowers perceived litigation costs for a media company but does not alter rates, inflation expectations, or aggregate risk appetite, so broad index effects should be minimal. Assets with the most direct exposure are News Corp shares and, to a lesser degree, the TRUMP token, whose price tends to react to political news flow rather than to court outcomes in unrelated disputes. Traders will be watching for any appeal filing by Trump's legal team, which would signal whether the litigation risk has truly been removed or simply deferred.

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