Five things to know ahead of the opening bell this morning. Japan's central bank raising its short-term interest rates to a three decade high of 75% that helped lift the country's 10-year Treasury yield past 2%. And the Bank of Japan also signaling readiness to tighten further.Meanwhile, data center deals hitting a record $61 billion in 2025. That's according to the S&P Global. European Union leaders agreeing to loan Ukraine more than hundred billion dollars to help the country defend itself from Russia for ...

This flag has been popping up at protests around the world. It's the Straw Hat Pirates Jolly Rodger. The flag has appeared this year at Gen Zed le demos, including in Indonesia, Nepal, and at Mexico's recent protests, too.The image comes from One Piece, one of Japan's most successful, longestr running manga series. At a time of political discord and social distress, young people have embraced it and the story of Monkey Duffy, One Piece's teenage hero, too. In the cartoon, Luffy sails the globe with his crew ...

Warner Bros. Discovery sent a clear message to its shareholders on December 17. Trust us, the best buyer of the storied Hollywood company is Netflix, not Paramount.Paramount is led by the billionaire son of Oracle's founder, David Ellison. He put forward a hostile 108 billion bid last week to buy Warner Bros. , but the Warner board called that offer inferior and too risky for investors.Why. They're telling Warner investors that the Ellison family, the second richest in America, can't be trusted to back the ...

Tik Tok reaching a deal to keep operating in the United States. That's according to a memo from the company's CEO. Tik Tok's US algorithm is going to be retrained on American user data.Joining us right now to discuss this, Doug Clinton, founder and CEO of Intelligent Alpha. Good morning to you. We've been waiting for this moment for quite some time.I think the big questions around this is how has this fundamentally changed uh the dynamic. Is it actually more secure. >> Yeah, Andrew, it's been 5 years in the ...

All right. So, give us a sense. Uh, we have the the data through Q3.What are we seeing in Q4 and what's the outlook for 2026. Are you expecting it to be another busy year for activist investors. >> Yeah, we do.Well, well, it's been it's been busy. Um, we expect there to be even busy in 2026. uh as as investors stop pouring money into Max 7 stocks like they have been which has been slowing down and they start looking for value and and frankly value stocks um we we we see activism a lot of good activist oppor ...

Let's get into it. Your word of the day is breath. What are you looking at.>> Well, you know, we've seen almost three years now where markets have been led primarily by mag 7, hyperscalers, big tech, and throughout the past few months, we've starting to see the market broaden out a little bit. And I really want to see that take place in 2026. >> We've seen financials, industrials, and and some AI adjacent starting to get involved in the game a little bit.>> All right. So, you're you're looking at for the ma ...

And welcome back to Worldwide Exchange. Check on a few big stories that we are following this morning. President Trump not ruling out a potential war with Venezuela and new comments to NBC News this morning, saying there will be additional seizures of oil tankers and he also declined to say whether ousting President Nicholas Maduro was his ultimate goal.The president also talking his trade policy, saying his tariffs are permanent. The Bank of Japan raising their short-term interest rates by a quarter point ...

And today is the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The record shared today could hold the most detailed look yet at two decades worth of government investigations into Epstein's sexual abuse of young women and underage girls. Yesterday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of photos obtained from the Epstein estate, including images of lines from the novel Lolita written on a person's body, various travel document ...

Because there's a major update on the mass shooting at Brown University. The suspect, Clauddio Manuel Neves Valente, was found dead last night in a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire. This evening at approximately 900 pm, federal agents breached a storage locker in Salem, New Hampshire in search of Clauddio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national we believed shot and killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor in Brooklyn, Massachusetts.Federal agents found N Valente dead from a self-inflicte ...

[music] Welcome back. You've been watching MS Now host Jonathan Kart's exclusive, fantastic interview with former first lady Michelle Obama. It was a fascinating hour plus conversation.And yes, it was about her new book, and yes, it was about the evolution of fashion. But in so many ways, that was the jumping off point to a much deeper conversation about culture and race and sexism and her own journey through it all as a woman who has been in the public eye for nearly 20 years. I can't believe that's it's b ...