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WSJ Minute Briefing

GameStop Wants eBay. It’s Offering $56 Billion to Get It.

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: A Journal investigation finds prediction market bets offer worse odds than Vegas Slots. And, President Trump announces a new plan for opening the Strait of Hormuz. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your team spend more time searching for information than using it. Amazon Quick changes that.

0:06.1

One intelligent assistant that connects all your company's data and turns answers into action instantly.

0:12.5

AWS.com slash quick.

0:17.4

Here's your morning brief from Monday, May 4th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

0:21.9

We're exclusively reporting that GameStop has made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for about $56 billion.

0:29.0

In an interview with the journal, GameStop CEO Brian Cohen said eBay can be a much bigger rival to Amazon,

0:35.6

and that if the e-commerce company isn't receptive to the proposal,

0:39.0

he's prepared to launch a proxy fight and take the offer directly to its shareholders.

0:43.7

We report GameStop is offering a roughly 20% premium to eBay's Friday closing price,

0:48.9

and that the video game company has a commitment letter from TD Bank to provide up to $20 billion

0:53.5

in debt financing to help make a deal possible.

0:57.0

A journal investigation has found that most people are losing money on the increasingly popular prediction markets.

1:03.0

Based on data from the past month, there's three losers for every single winner on the platform Kalshi,

1:08.9

and on Pauly Market, about 70% of users have lost money.

1:12.8

Our reporting also found that sophisticated traders are eating retail investors lunch. On

1:18.0

Polly Market, two-thirds of all of the profits on the site have gone to just a tenth of a

1:22.7

percent of users. And President Trump has said the U.S. would begin guiding commercial ships out of the

1:28.5

Strait of Hormuz today in an effort to unblock the waterway. But critics point to how the

1:33.5

plan doesn't involve naval escorts, and for now, oil traders appear unconvinced it will resolve

1:39.3

a supply crunch that has sent prices soaring. Futures tied to Brent crude rose above $109 a barrel this morning.

1:47.8

Markets in Japan, Shanghai, and the UK are closed for public holidays, otherwise Korea's

1:52.8

Kaspi Index ended the day at a new record. European stocks are slipping and U.S. futures

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