Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will start its largely print-based publishing company with no debt and $2.6 billion in cash when it completes the spinoff.The amount of cash and debt, which analysts generally expected, gives the publishing company a purse to purchase other assets should it choose. News Corp released the details in a regulatory filing on Friday."You can never count out Murdoch when it comes to buying companies," said Gabelli & Co analyst Brett Harriss.News Corp said in the filing the publishing company's assets are worth $18.6 billion, which includes newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and Times of London, book publisher HarperCollins and its ownership stake in other assets such as Australian pay-TV company Foxtel.
News Corporation is a diversified global media company. Shares of NWSA traded higher by 2.1% or $0.63/share to $30.58. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $13.55 and as high as $24.04. On average, 19309000 shares of NWSA exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 15623254.
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