Paramount Ups the Ante

Paramount Ups the Ante

Paramount crashes the party, launching its own bid for Warner Bros. just days after Netflix struck a deal. Michael Wolf of Activate joined Bloomberg Open Interest. He says that the proposed...
December 09, 2025 at 12:47 am IST
Buffett Deputy Todd Combs Joins JPMorgan

Buffett Deputy Todd Combs Joins JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase & Co. hired Berkshire Hathaway's Todd Combs for a broad role that includes advising Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and his top lieutenants on strategic issues. Combs will also...
December 08, 2025 at 10:26 pm IST
JPMorgan CEO Dimon Says Europe Has a 'Real Problem'

JPMorgan CEO Dimon Says Europe Has a 'Real Problem'

JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon spoke at the Reagan National Defense Forum, calling out slow bureaucracy in Europe in a warning that a weak continent poses a major economic risk...
December 08, 2025 at 08:55 pm IST
Paramount Offers to Buy Warner Bros. for $30 a Share

Paramount Offers to Buy Warner Bros. for $30 a Share

Paramount Skydance took its bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery public with an offer of $30 a share in cash, just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix . Geetha Ranganathan has more...
December 08, 2025 at 08:38 pm IST
China Targets Domestic Demand; Trade Surplus Tops $1 Tln

China Targets Domestic Demand; Trade Surplus Tops $1 Tln

China's annual trade surplus exceeded $1 trillion for the first time despite a plunge in shipments to the US. Exports rose 5.9% from a year earlier and outpaced a 1.9% gain in imports, according to...
December 08, 2025 at 08:23 pm IST
This Week's Fed Meeting Is for Traders:  3-Minutes MLIV

This Week's Fed Meeting Is for Traders: 3-Minutes MLIV

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on Bloomberg: The Opening Trade. ...
December 08, 2025 at 08:12 pm IST
US-China Tensions Fuel Decoupling in Tech Research

US-China Tensions Fuel Decoupling in Tech Research

US-China collaboration in technology research has fallen steadily to the lowest in 20 years, according to a study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Stephan Robin, the report's author,...
December 08, 2025 at 07:30 pm IST
Investors Watching for 'Hawkish' Fed Rate Cut, Julius Baer Says

Investors Watching for 'Hawkish' Fed Rate Cut, Julius Baer Says

Julius Baer's Mark Matthews says the expectation is for the US Federal Reserve to cut rates this week, and then in January and March next year. He adds that everybody wants to see how hawkish of a...
December 08, 2025 at 07:07 pm IST
Chinese Fighter Jet Locks Radar on Japan Planes

Chinese Fighter Jet Locks Radar on Japan Planes

Chinese and Japanese ties came under further strain after a Chinese fighter aircraft trained fire-control radar on Japanese military jets for the first time. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports. ...
December 08, 2025 at 06:37 pm IST
Family Businesses Are Losing Their Heirs   What Comes Next?

Family Businesses Are Losing Their Heirs What Comes Next?

Across the US, millions of family-owned businesses are approaching a crossroads. Aging founders are ready to retire, but many heirs don't want to take over. Long Island dry cleaner Gary Bochner,...
December 08, 2025 at 06:16 pm IST
What Went Wrong With Capitalism?

What Went Wrong With Capitalism?

Capitalism has reinvented itself many times, from laissez-faire to Keynesianism to the Reagan-Thatcher era. But if the 2008 crisis ended the old model, what replaces it? Bloomberg Opinion's John...
December 08, 2025 at 05:42 pm IST
From TikTok to the Streets:  Conspicuous Wealth & Nepal's Gen-Z Uprising

From TikTok to the Streets: Conspicuous Wealth & Nepal's Gen-Z Uprising

What began on TikTok as anger about inequality exploded into Nepal's largest youth-led protest in decades. Wall Street Week's Michael McKee reports from Kathmandu on how Gen-Z activists, angered by...
December 08, 2025 at 04:58 pm IST
Rattner:  US Can't 'Out-Negotiate' China

Rattner: US Can't 'Out-Negotiate' China

Willett Advisors' Steven Rattner joins Wall Street Week after returning from China to share his view of an economy running at two speeds -- weak consumption but booming tech. He discusses how China...
December 08, 2025 at 04:32 pm IST
FIFA Cup May be Biggest-Ever Sporting Event:  Alex Lasry

FIFA Cup May be Biggest-Ever Sporting Event: Alex Lasry

Alex Lasry, CEO of FIFA World Cup 26 NYNJ, says the World Cup final could be the biggest event in human history, telling Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on The Close it will surpass even a Super...
December 08, 2025 at 04:14 pm IST
Build-A-Bear CEO:  'No Way Around' Tariff Impact

Build-A-Bear CEO: 'No Way Around' Tariff Impact

Sharon Price John, Build-A-Bear Workshop President & CEO, says strong preemptive actions in the first half will create a tough comparison next year. She tells The Close that tariff-affected...
December 08, 2025 at 03:53 pm IST