Alex Osola
speaker
474 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Alex Osola’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.
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And for Ukrainians, Christmas threatens to be dark as the country deals with its most severe energy crisis since 2022.
Moscow has been attacking the grid on a greater scale, leaving some parts of the country without power for days at a time.
Markets will close early today.
U.S.
stock markets will shut at 1 p.m.
Eastern time and bond markets an hour later.
Markets will be closed tomorrow for Christmas Day and they'll reopen for regular trading on Friday.
Coming up, the teens juggling high school with founding an AI company and what 2026 looks like for mergers and acquisitions.
Those stories and more after the break.
In deal news, British oil giant BP has agreed to sell a 65% stake in its Castrol Lubricants business to investment firm Stonepeak.
The deal values the division at $8 billion.
The companies announced the deal today after The Wall Street Journal reported that an agreement was near.
And Sanofi is buying vaccine specialist Dynavax Technologies for $2.2 billion.
The French pharmaceutical company has been using acquisitions to strengthen its lineup of medicines and vaccines after some experimental drugs missed their goals in clinical studies or were turned down by regulators.
In fact, there have been a lot of deals this year, from the merger of railroads Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to Google's acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz.
And there have been big breakups, too, like Kraft Heinz splitting into two companies.
What's been driving all this activity?
And can we expect it to continue next year?
I talked about it with WSJ lead deals reporter Lauren Thomas.
Lauren, how was this year for deals?
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