The S&P 500 and Dow hit new highs while Nasdaq lagged as Oracle dropped 11% on AI spending concerns with Broadcom falling 6% despite beating expectations and revealing Anthropic as its $10B customer; Lululemon CEO steps down with shares surging 9% while Costco crushed forecasts with record Black Friday digital sales; Disney invested $1B in OpenAI allowing users to create content with 200+ Disney characters on Sora.
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Launches $30 Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (And Trump Demands a 25% Cut on Nvidia’s China Sales)
Paramount Skydance went hostile with a $30 all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—$2.25 higher than Netflix’s offer—backed by Jared Kushner and cheered on by Trump, who publicly threatened Netflix’s deal. President Trump also announced Nvidia, AMD, and Intel can resume chip sales to China if the U.S. takes a 25% cut, raising serious concerns about executive overreach.
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Why Gen Z Thinks Cash is "Not Real" (And Why That's Dangerous)
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Netflix Wins Warner Bros. Discovery in $82B Deal (And Meta Cuts Metaverse Budget 30%)
Netflix reached an $82 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film studio and HBO Max creating a streaming empire; Meta surged 3% on reports of 30% metaverse budget cuts; Ulta Beauty beat expectations on resilient beauty spending; Tesla jumped to #10 in Consumer Reports' reliability rankings; Amazon is considering expanding delivery beyond its $6B USPS partnership; Spotify Wrapped drew 200 million users in 24 hours; unemployment claims fell to 191,000 lowest in three years; and Ritz recalled crackers after a dangerous peanut/cheese labeling error.
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Are There Too Many ETFs? Why ‘Boring’ Index Funds Keep Winning
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