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Larry Ellison provides personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Wa…

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Instacart is ending its controversial price tests

Instacart has announced it will be ending price testing on its platform. This comes after a study published earlier this month revealed pricing experiments that led to some customers seeing higher prices than others and the FTC saying last week it would be investigating the grocery delivery app.
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Hut 8’s AI data center deal is bigger than meets the eye: Benchmark lifts price target to $85

Shares of the bitcoin miner jumped higher last week on its $7 billion pact with Google-backed Fluidstack.

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Jim Beam to pause production at its main distillery on Jan. 1

The main distillery will be closed for site enhancements, the company said. The pause comes after whiskey production has dropped amid a challenging year.

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State Street Private Credit ETF Stalls in Year of Industry Snags

State Street Corp. seemed to perfectly time the private-markets wave, debuting a private credit exchange-traded fund in February months ahead of an executive order that aimed to push more investors into alternative assets.

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Prediction markets beat Wall Street in forecasting inflation, Kalshi says

Kalshi's markets aggregate information from diverse traders with financial incentives, creating a "wisdom of the crowd" effect, the platform said.

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TikTok Shop launches digital gift cards to challenge Amazon and eBay

TikTok Shop has rolled out a new feature that allows users to purchase digital gift cards, making it easier to help friends and family buy from the millions of products on the app.

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Why Thailand Currency’s Surge Defies Economic Gravity

The Thai baht is heading for its biggest annual gain against the US dollar in eight years. At first glance, there seems to be little to justify its outperformance against regional peers. Thailand’s economy is far from robust, weighed down by sluggish tourism, high household debt and a 19% tariff on …

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Strategy boosted cash reserve by $748 million last week

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company raised the funds entirely by sales of common stock.

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Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride

Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two yearsThe UK’s biggest businesses are rolling back their public support for Pride celebrations, Guardian analysis suggests, prompting warnings that “clear signals” were n…

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BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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Honeywell says it has a $470 million Flexjet problem, and a lowered profit outlook

Honeywell expects to make a one-time cash settlement payment of $470 million related to the Flexjet lawsuit — and the stock drops.

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Startup Stuffers and its pre-teen founders offer lessons in how to make the most of AI

Jackson and Quincy Fuller, ages ten and seven, use AI design tools to make better, more memorable corporate swag.

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If You Don't Design Your Career, Someone Else Will

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North Sea operator Harbour buys Gulf of Mexico oil group for $3.2bn

UK company strikes deal as it seeks to expand internationally

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Toy touts, random spins and frantic bidding: the murky side of live auction site Whatnot

Quickfire lots fuel a booming business, but critics condemn gambling-style features and popularity with ‘scalpers’Christmas is fast approaching, the shopping days are ebbing away, and in one corner of the internet, the rush to grab highly prized Pokémon trading cards is boiling over into a competiti…

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Coty hires P&G veteran as executive chair in leadership overhaul

Markus Strobel also becomes interim chief, replacing Sue Nabi who departs after sharp falls in share price

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Tech, BOJ Drive Rally in Asia | The Asia Trade 12/22/25

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Australia with Annabelle Droulers and Paul Allen, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global marke…

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Europe’s banks turn to private equity for M&A without tears

Lenders have been snapping up businesses formerly owned by buyout firms at a record rate

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How one PE group’s deals show the risks of firms selling to themselves

Triton Partners sold assets for more than it had told original backers they would be worth after putting them into a continuation fund