5 things to know before the stock market opens on Tuesday

Happy Tuesday. This morning, your old fellow news associate CJ, who loves origami, is back in Alex’s place. To help me get in the mood, I’m listening to a little Miles Davis as I write. But he’s not the only one to set a “milestone,” as the Nasdaq broke a new record yesterday.

Stock futures are rising in pre-market trading on strong performance on Wall Street.

Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.

Stock prices rose on Monday, supported by gains in artificial intelligence stocks, including: intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Lower oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields also boosted Wall Street profits. S&P500 It was the highest day since early August.

Here’s what you need to know:

paramount skydance Yesterday, it reached a settlement with a group of state attorneys general who challenged the company’s $110 billion merger. warner bros discovery. The antitrust case is scheduled to go to trial next spring, and the deal could be delayed until mid-2027, potentially costing Paramount a nine-figure fee.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that under the terms of the agreement, Paramount committed to increasing domestic production and agreed to certain conditions regarding theatrical release. As CNBC’s Lillian Rizzo and Sarah Witten reported, the CBS News parent company also said it would create a new committee focused on editorial independence at CBS and WBD-owned CNN.

Paramount CEO David Ellison told employees he expects to close the deal in about two weeks, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.

OpenAI on Monday announced a set of new safety and security proposals for AI development and called for global cooperation to create standards for frontier models. The company, which backed CEO Sam Altman’s recent call to slow down development, has placed particular emphasis on adjustment research and recursive self-improvement.

The new proposal comes hours after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that developers “need to take responsibility themselves” instead of relying on the federal government to provide them with a “liability shield.”

President Donald Trump also said in a post on Truth Social on Monday that the Justice Department and other U.S. law enforcement agencies would rein in AI “as necessary,” but still downplayed the dangers of AI as “a hoax.”

The White House television press corps suspended coverage yesterday after the White House banned CNN, the television reporter assigned to President Trump’s trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, from serving as a member of the press corps. It is unclear whether the five news organizations will continue to suspend coverage after Monday.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed a lawsuit against Trump on Monday seeking to overturn the White House’s ban on three news organizations. A judge scheduled an initial hearing in the case for Wednesday afternoon.

But what do reporters do all day? And why does it matter? As CNBC’s Garrett Downs and Kate Keating write, pool coverage provides a near-constant stream of the president’s activities. Without it, the public could be deprived of vital information about what the president is up to.

Disclosure: CNBC and MS NOW are divisions of Versant Media.

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks sat down with CNBC’s Annika Kim Constantino for an exclusive interview yesterday to talk about GLP-1, the company’s new manufacturing facility in Houston, and more.

Ricks said 700,000 new seniors have started GLP-1 treatment since Medicare began covering the obesity drug in July, and 70% of those patients are taking Lilly’s drug. As for the oral version of the drug, Ricks told CNBC that one-third of new patients on GLP-1 tablets are taking Foundayo. The CEO said he is “confident long-term” about his company’s position in the GLP-1 tablet market. Novo.

President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., ended August with $12 million more than July, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing posted late Sunday. Key numbers for August are:

Cash on hand: $415.8 million Raised: $23.7 million Expenditure: $11.4 million

—CNBC’s Sean Conlon, Chris Udaly, Arjun Karpal, Lillian Rizzo, Sarah Witten, Jonathan Vanian, Dan Mangan, Kevin Browninger, Garrett Downs, Kate Keating, Annika Kim Constantino and Luke Fountain contributed to this report.

Josephine Rozzelle edited this version.