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Paramount’s hostile Warner Bros. bid, Meta’s AI course correction, McDonald’s value crackdown and more in Morning Squawk
David Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance Corp., center, outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need […]
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Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2025. Andy Wenstrand | Sxsw Conference & Festivals | Getty Images IBM announced Monday that it is acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. Shares of Confluent soared 29% premarket. IBM stock sank about 1%. IBM […]
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Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use
Inside Horizon Quantum’s office in Singapore on Dec. 3, 2025. The software firm claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in the city-state. Sha Ying | CNBC International Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum on Wednesday said it has become the first private company to run a quantum computer for […]
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How to use the tax-loss selling occurring now to pick up quality stocks on the cheap
It’s that time of year again: the annual tax-loss harvest. It’s happening across the brokerage firms right now, and it’s happening in size. Advisors are locking in losses to offset the big realized gains from earlier in the year, especially back in April when clients trimmed their winners and booked profits. We know from trading […]
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Amid market volatility, should retail investors buy the dips or take their profits and run?
The recent market action may have some investors wondering if they should take their profits and run, or look to buy into any weakness. Stocks recovered some ground on Friday after a rocky morning. The Nasdaq Composite snapped a three-day losing streak, ending 0.13% higher. The S & P 500 closed near the flatline and […]
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Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Reynolds-backed password manager tops $400 million in ARR on AI tail winds
Ryan Reynolds (L), Scarlett Johansson (C), and Matthew McConaughy Reuters Cybersecurity startup 1Password, backed by Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McConaughey and Scarlett Johansson, has topped more than $400 million in annual recurring revenue, the company said Thursday. “We believe we’re at a pretty significant inflection point in our journey,” CEO David Faugno told CNBC. “We’re set […]
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Election results, McDonald’s earnings, AI valuation fears and more in Morning Squawk
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 3, 2025. NYSE This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Shock value Stocks sold off yesterday amid investor concerns about the valuations of […]
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IBM cutting thousands of jobs in the fourth quarter
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images IBM said Tuesday that it will lay off a small percentage of its employees in the current quarter. “In the fourth quarter we […]
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AMD’s stock pops 6% on report IBM can use its chips for quantum computing
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices jumped more than 6% on a report that IBM can utilize the company’s chips to run certain quantum computing algorithms. IBM gained about 6%. Reuters reported on Friday that a paper will publish next week showing that IBM can run a quantum error-correction algorithm on AMD’s field-programmable gate array chips. […]
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Quantum stocks stayed higher after Trump administration’s denial of equity talks. Here’s why
The Trump administration is pouring cold water on a report that it’s “currently” in talks to take equity stakes in quantum computing companies like IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum, but shares in each of the companies were still comfortably higher Thursday. “The Commerce Department is not currently negotiating equity stakes with quantum computing companies,” […]
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