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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Doug Krisner. Paramount's Guidance has raised its bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. We are told the new offer improves on the $30 a share all cash proposal made directly to Warner Brothers shareholders back on December 8th. Now, the revised Paramount offer also addresses some of Warner's earlier concerns. Here's the rub. Back in December, Warner agreed to sell its film and TV studios and its HBO Max business to Netflix. So if the Warner Brothers board sees the new Paramount offer as superior, Netflix will have four days to respond. A powerful winter storm buried New York City in one of its 10 snowiest days on record. This storm disrupted transportation across the Northeast.
Bloomberg weather reporter Lauren Rosenthal says we're not out of the woods just yet.
There are chances of some sort of slippery winter mix later in the week, and some forecast models have hinted at the possibility of another nor'easter next week. However, this far out, it's difficult to say with certainty whether we will see another significant snowstorm.
That is Bloomberg's Lauren Rosenthal. Now, in New York City, Mayor Zoran Mamdani lifted the travel ban put in place Sunday night at 9 p.m. That directive closed streets, highways, and bridges. U.K. police have arrested former British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released emails allegedly showing Mandelson forwarding government information to Jeffrey Epstein. Police searched two properties linked to Mandelson as part of their criminal probe. His arrest deepens the crisis, engulfing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his decision to appoint Mandelson as U.S. envoy despite known links to Epstein.
Mandelson has not been charged, and his lawyer has declined to comment. There is a new wave of uncertainty after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump's emergency tariffs. The European Union is freezing final approval of its trade deal with the U.S., and India has called off a trip to the U.S.
What new offer has Paramount made to acquire Warner Bros.?
to put the finishing touches on their trade agreement. Today on Truth Social, President Trump said he'll put much higher tariffs on countries that, quote, play games with a high court ruling. Immediately after the Supreme Court invalidated the president's reciprocal tariffs, he enacted a 15 percent tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. However, these tariffs are limited to 150 days. Here is Nathan Dean from Bloomberg Intelligence.
Under 122, President Trump could just say across the entire globe 15 percent. 301 has to be specifically targeted towards an investigation and towards a country. So I don't think the White House is going to be able to say, look, here's what the 301 tariff is for everybody across the globe. I think there's going to be specific, you know, targeted tariffs towards countries. But at the end of the day, I don't think Congress has much of a role here to play because 301, you know, according to our analysis, is pretty, pretty firm.
That is Nathan Dean from Bloomberg Intelligence. The stock market pulled back today on renewed anxiety over the impact of AI, as well as uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy. The S&P 500 was down 1%. Shares in IBM plunged 13% today. That was after Anthropic said its clawed code tool can help with modernizing the COBOL software language. Now, most of the mainframe computers that run COBOL are made by IBM. Elsewhere, when it comes to the impact of AI, Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, expects bankruptcies for software companies.
The effect on the stock market, as you realize, the previous rally that we had was driven by a very small number of names.
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