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So many people have turned on the financials here because of the problems in this private credit space that you hear about. A product that allows investors to buy pieces of syndicated loans. It sounds simple enough and institutions are always looking for a little extra yield which is what they give you.But the companies who marketed these products, these private credit products, they got too aggressive, roping in a lot of individual investors and didn't understand the product and now they want their money b ...

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Paramount has agreed to buy Warner Brothers Discovery for $110 billion. WBD's top executives are set to become some of the biggest winners of this deal. Now, when a company is acquired, its highest paid executives are sometimes let go.There are often contractual agreements in place called change of control clauses that guarantee significant pay if in fact they are ousted. This is called a golden parachute. Warner Brothers president CEO David Zazlav's golden parachute could reach close to $900 million.Now th ...

FACT THAT THERE IS A LOT MORE MONEY AT STAKE, AND IT'S A FIERCELY COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE AMONG THESE GEN AI NAMES. >> YEAH, IT'S CERTAINLY A WHOLE NEW WORLD ON THAT FRONT. MACKENZIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.APPRECIATE IT. LET'S BRING IN BIG TECHNOLOGY FOUNDER AND CNBC CONTRIBUTOR ALEX KANTROWITZ. ALEX, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS FRIDAY.WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL OF THESE KIND OF BACK AND FORTHS BETWEEN THE AI COMPANIES AND THE PENTAGON AND THE VARIOUS CHESS GAME THAT'S TAKING PLACE. >> WELL, THERE ARE BILLIONS OF ...

He is Tom Lee, CIO of Funstrat, CNBC contributor and on set. We're going to uh ask you to graciously if you would stick around for a couple of different blocks because we love Tom Lee. Thanks for coming on.>> Yeah, glad to be here. >> You're not changing that 7700. >> Uh we're not.>> Okay. Why not. Uh well um one I think 7700 was a conservative estimate to start because markets uh have been steadily repricing on a PE basis and we're only assuming modest PE expansion this year to 7700.And as much as the war ...

All right. So, shares of Super Micro Computer losing about onethird of their value. It's because of an international smuggling scandal that apparently includes hot air dryers, secret cameras, and maybe the worst alleged criminal activity.I mean, Christina Parts with the story in today's Tech Check. This was not maybe the highest grade potential criminal activity we've ever seen. Just throwing that out there.>> Oh yeah, but they got away with it with millions of dollars. And that's because there was a web of ...

SEE THE DOW DOWN ABOUT HALF A PERCENT, THE S&P DOWN 0.8%. AND THE NASDAQ THE CLEAR LAGGARD HERE ALONG WITH THE RUSSELL 2000 DOWN MORE THAN 1% FOR EACH OF THOSE. AND OF COURSE THE S&P PACING FOR THE FOURTH DOWN WEEK AND THE LONGEST LOSING STREAK STREAK SINCE MARCH.A LOT HAS BEEN HASN'T MOVED THAT MUCH CONSIDERING ALL THE GEOPOLITICAL HEADLINES THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE REASON FOR THAT. AND DO YOU THINK THAT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD CREATE A BIGGER DRAWDOWN IN THE S&P.>> YEAH. I WA ...

This spring is clearly a buyer market, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for all buyers. And that's because mortgage rates are rising when we thought they'd be falling now. And concern over the economy is very real.The average rate on the 30-year fix jumped 10 more basis points this morning to 6.53% according to Mortgage News Daily. Barely a month ago, it was dipping into the 5% range. But the war with Iran turned that around.Buyers are only in the driver's seat now because inventory is up and pri ...

So you've got Anthropic heading to court with the Pentagon on Tuesday. Open AAI taking heat for rushing into a defense deal. So really the biggest beneficiary so far may actually be Google which has worked hard to stay out of the spotlight since the Iran war began.Now BI reporting that in a January deep mind town hall weeks before Anthropics Pentagon battle, CEO Demis told staff he was very comfortable pushing deeper into national security work. Now, by that point, Google had already updated its AI principl ...