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FBI Releases Security Camera Photos in Guthrie Case, WB Considers Paramount Offer, More
10 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What new evidence has the FBI released in the Guthrie case?
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Amy Morris. The FBI has just released new pictures of a suspect related to the abduction of Nancy Guthrie. FBI Director Kash Patel posted pictures of a masked person on Guthrie's porch. The FBI said yesterday it had not identified any suspects. The 84-year-old Guthrie has been missing since the night of January 31st.
The board of Warner Brothers Discovery says it will carefully review and consider the latest offer from Paramount, but it's not modifying its recommendation regarding the Netflix merger. Paramount's guidance made enhancements to its hostile offer for Warner Brothers Discovery to woo shareholders over from rival Netflix.
Geetha Raghunathan with Bloomberg Intelligence says they stopped just short of raising the offer itself.
They raised that bid to let's say 32, 33, 34, whatever the number is. you're going to look at a company that's going to be levered at about seven to maybe 7.3 times. You're not going to be able to invest in growth. You're just going to be focused on deleveraging So yes, they could get their hands on this absolutely world-class asset, but leverage becomes this huge, huge headache for them.
Paramount's proxy bid expires February 20th. Paramount shares are more than 1% higher. Warner Brothers Discovery shares more than 2% higher. Turning now to the latest in the Epstein Files fallout. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick now says he did visit Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
Back in 2012, he says, he was with his wife and children, years after Lutnick said he had cut off all ties with Epstein.
They were there as well with their children. I don't I don't recall why we did it.
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen says the problem with it is the timing and Lutnick's earlier insistence that he had nothing to do with Epstein.
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Chapter 2: What is the latest on Paramount's offer to Warner Brothers Discovery?
The deadline for those talks is Friday. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says he thinks the uncertainty in geopolitics and artificial intelligence will result in a speed bump sometime this year.
I would expect that we'll have something like that will happen that will create somewhere in the year a speed bump or recalibration or slowdown. And I think there are a bunch of things that you can worry about on that front, certainly geopolitical things and policy issues.
But, you know, I'd also say, you know, what's going on with AI and technology also has the potential to create recalibration.
Solomon also said the economy is likely to see strong growth this year. He spoke at the UBS conference. Treasury yields hit session lows after U.S. retail sales unexpectedly stagnated in December. Some import price measures were higher than forecast, and the dollar erased small gains. shows delinquency rates on mortgages, credit cards and other loans rose at 4.8% at the end of last year.
That was the highest in almost a decade. We do check the markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. The S&P 500 is up a tenth of a percent. NASDAQ up a tenth of a percent. The Dow up about a half percent. The 10-year Treasury yield at 4.14% and the 2-year yield at 3.5%.
The National Governors Association will no longer hold a formal meeting with President Trump after the White House planned to invite only Republicans. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt sent a letter to his fellow governors saying NGA staff had been informed that the White House intended to limit invitations to the annual business meeting to Republican governors only.
So they took that meeting off the agenda. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Amy Morris. This is Bloomberg.
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