Key Takeaways WBD Tells Shareholders to Take the Netflix DealFormer Fed Governor Kevin Warsh Considered for Fed ChairGIS and ABM Report Earnings This Morning, MU After the CloseWednesday, December 17, 2025This morning, we take a pause from big economic prints and/or market-moving earnings reports. We’re sandwiched between yesterday’s big Employment Situation report and tomorrow’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Rate, both of which were delayed due to the government shutdown. But we’ll be more caugh ...

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is reportedly pulling out as a partner of Paramount Skydance’s attempted hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, whose board unanimously urged shareholders to reject the $78 billion bid from the Ellison family early on Wednesday morning.Affinity withdrew its backing of Paramount’s proposal after Kushner’s involvement in a deal that his father-in-law, President Trump, said he would personally review drew a significant amount of unwanted scrutiny, so ...

There's one clear winner in the fight for Warner Bros. Discovery: Wall Street banks. Some big names in finance could clean up. WBD is set to pay Allen & Co., J.P. Morgan, and Evercore a total of $225 million in connection with its sale to Netflix or David Ellison's Paramount Skydance, if a deal goes through, according to a new SEC filing.WBD has been weighing dueling offers from Netflix, which wants to buy its studio and streaming business, and Paramount, which bid for the whole company (including its cabl ...

Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) board of directors has rejected the $108 billion hostile takeover bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, calling the offer “illusory,” and saying that Paramount had misled shareholders about its financing. Saying it wants to honor its initial agreement to sell to Netflix, WBD’s board wrote in a letter to shareholders that Paramount “has consistently misled WBD shareholders that its proposed transaction has a ‘full backstop’ from the Ellison family.” “It does not, an ...

In Brief Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) board of directors has rejected the $108 billion hostile takeover bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, calling the offer “illusory,” and saying that Paramount had misled shareholders about its financing.Saying it wants to honor its initial agreement to sell to Netflix, WBD’s board wrote in a letter to shareholders that Paramount “has consistently misled WBD shareholders that its proposed transaction has a ‘full backstop’ from the Ellison family.” “It does no ...

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Paramount CEO David Ellison was left on read during a key part of the negotiations to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — and now we know why. Ellison's text message to WBD CEO David Zaslav on December 4, which said that Paramount's offer was not its "best and final," went unanswered in the hours leading up to WBD's decision to accept Netflix's offer.In a new SEC filing, WBD said Zaslav didn't respond to Ellison's text since it "did not present any actionable improved proposal for consideration and it would not h ...

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.'s board of directors urged shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid for the company, arguing that it poses "significant" risks and costs.  The media behemoth said Wednesday that members of its board determined that the tender offer from Paramount Skydance was "not in the best interests" of the company or its shareholders, and that they continue to "unanimously" recommend the Netflix merger.Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to sell its film and television stud ...

华纳兄弟探索公司正建议其股东拒绝派拉蒙天舞公司(PSKY.US)的敌意收购要约，转而支持其与奈飞的 原定协议，并认为派拉蒙的报价"更低劣"且"不充分"。 周三，奈飞(NFLX.US)涨2%，报96.47美元。据报道，奈飞计划在12至18个月内完成华纳兄弟探索公司 (WBD.US)交易，已提交与交易相关的HSR申报文件。奈飞周三上午致信华纳兄弟股东，重申其要约更 优，并敦促他们批准该协议。奈飞联合首席执行官泰德.萨兰多斯写道："华纳兄弟探索董事会再次确 认，奈飞的合并协议更优，我们的收购最符合股东利益。" ...

智通财经APP获悉，周三，奈飞(NFLX.US)涨2%，报96.47美元。据报道，奈飞计划在12至18个月内完 成华纳兄弟探索公司(WBD.US)交易，已提交与交易相关的HSR申报文件。奈飞周三上午致信华纳兄弟 股东，重申其要约更优，并敦促他们批准该协议。奈飞联合首席执行官泰德·萨兰多斯写道："华纳兄弟 探索董事会再次确认，奈飞的合并协议更优，我们的收购最符合股东利益。" 华纳兄弟探索公司正建议其股东拒绝派拉蒙天舞公司(PSKY.US)的敌意收购要约，转而支持其与奈飞的 原定协议，并认为派拉蒙的报价"更低劣"且"不充分"。 ...