The Netflix logo is pictured at the company’s offices on Vine in Los Angeles, California on December 5, 2025.
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“Who’s watching?” Netflix every time someone visits the site. On Friday, probably everyone interested in business, markets, and television gathered together.
The main characters that made people fall in love with Netflix and warner bros discoverythe streaming giant jointly announced that it would acquire the latter’s movie studio and streaming service HBO Max. The value of the stock deal is pegged at $72 billion.
Netflix investors didn’t seem too fazed by the deal, with the stock dropping 2.89% due to the size of the deal.
“This reckoning is going to hurt Netflix for some time, there’s no question about it,” Rich Greenfield, co-founder of Lightshed Partners, told CNBC. “This is expensive,” he added.
But if one party is paying a high price, it means the other party is receiving a bounty. In fact, investors were so excited about Warner Bros. Discovery’s potential windfall that the stock rose 6.3% on the news.
No agreement has yet been reached and the deal is subject to regulatory oversight. Trump said he would be involved in the decision after a senior Trump administration official told CNBC’s Eamon Gervers on Friday that the president views the deal with “deep skepticism,” Reuters reported on Monday.
Despite this initial reluctance, strange things are happening with this administration, and a deal may finally be struck. Should you be ready for Netflix’s next blockbuster, K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Song of Ice and Fire?
What you need to know today
US stocks were positive on Friday. of S&P500 recorded its ninth winning session in 10 years, rising 0.3% for the week. regions of europe Stocks 600 Closed flat. Separately, the euro zone economic growth rate for the third quarter was revised upward to 0.3%.
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s movie and streaming business. The deal has a total stock value of $72 billion, the companies announced Friday. However, the deal could run into regulatory hurdles.
US core inflation will subside. The core personal consumption expenditure price index in September was at an annualized rate of 2.8%, 0.1 percentage points lower than expected and August’s figure. Other numbers matched expectations.
Ukraine peace deal “very close”. This is according to Keith Kellogg, the US special envoy to Ukraine, who was quoted as saying on Saturday that there are two important unresolved issues: the future of Ukraine’s Donbas region and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
(PRO) Goldman Sachs announces the world’s top 5 stocks. The bank said the stocks are from China, Taiwan, India, Germany and the UK, and all have at least 70% upside potential.
And finally…
Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations operated by Electricity France (EDF) in Sizewell, UK, Friday, January 26, 2024. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Nuclear energy has a history on British soil, but what does its future hold?
Britain once had more nuclear power plants than the United States, the Soviet Union and France combined. Although it was a world-class producer until 1970, it has not completed a new reactor since Sizewell B in 1995.
I have an ambition to change that. Authorities want a quarter of Britain’s electricity to come from nuclear power by 2050. The country is betting on large, proven nuclear projects and smaller, next-generation reactors known as small modular reactors.
— Tasmin Lockwood
