Dave Brancaccio

Paramount is, well, Paramount in the big Hollywood eat or be eaten saga.

Dave Brancaccio in Los Angeles here.

This is what stock market investors at least see as a win-win outcome.

The studio Paramount Skydance stock is up more than 8% in pre-market trading now.

after it's emerging the victor in the battle to buy rival Warner Brothers.

And Netflix stock is also up by the same percentage because it pulled out and won't have to pay all that money to Warner Brothers, an entertainment conglomerate that owns movie and TV studios, streaming outlets and cable TV channels, including CNN.

Here's Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer.

As this deal comes together, Marketplace's Kristen Schwab has more on the state of streaming.

Uncertainty over tariffs is one reason government bonds have been popular this week.

When bonds go up, interest rates come down with the 10-year rate below 4% this morning.

The average 30-year mortgage rate has been parked at 6% even for two days now after falling below for the first time in three and a half years, this using Mortgage News Daily's calculation.

Now, if companies are allowed to get money paid to the U.S.

government on the subset of Trump tariffs now ruled illegal, will they pocket the refund and cheer up shareholders?

FedEx has just promised to give any refunds back to its customers.

About half of high school applicants use artificial intelligence to pick where to apply to college, nearly double from last spring.

This is from a survey out this week from the education company EAB.

Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes has more.

And in Los Angeles, I'm David Brancaccio.

This is the Marketplace Morning Report from APM American Public Media.