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WSJ Minute Briefing

U.S. Stocks Edged Higher to End The Week

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Plus: Netflix’s $72 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery sent the Hollywood giant’s stock rallying, while shares of rival suitor Paramount Skydance sank. And SoFi Technologies stock fell after announcing plans to sell common shares. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Deloitte expects the space economy to reach $2 trillion by 2035.

0:04.6

Jason Garzatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., says that growth is fueled by data and its application

0:09.6

for businesses across industries.

0:11.3

What's exciting is that the data and the analytic and the commercial application of the data

0:16.1

will move to be more mainstream.

0:18.7

It will be something that organizations of any size can benefit from

0:22.3

the data that's being emitted from space that could be pertinent to their operation. Visit Deloitte.com

0:26.9

to learn how the space economy is creating new opportunities. Here's your closing bell brief

0:35.3

for Friday, December 5th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.7

U.S. stocks edged higher today with the NASDAQ composite rising 0.3%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow

0:45.7

both closed up 0.2%.

0:48.7

For the week, the S&P rose 0.3%, the NASDAQ advanced 0.9%, and the Dow gained half a percent. Investors focused on

0:56.5

the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge today, which showed prices rose 2.8% year-over-year

1:01.7

in September. That reading was in line with expectations, keeping the central bank on track for a

1:06.8

widely anticipated interest rate cut next week. Among individual companies, Warner Brothers Discovery shares rallied 6.3% after Netflix agreed to

1:15.8

buy the company's studios and streaming business for $72 billion.

1:20.2

Conversely, stock in rival-suter Paramount Skydance sank, losing 9.8%.

1:25.2

Ulta Beauty shares surged 12.7%.

1:29.0

The cosmetics retailer raised its annual sales and earnings guidance after quarterly results trumped

1:34.3

expectations.

1:36.0

And SOFi Technologies stock fell 6.2%.

1:38.9

The Financial Services Company announced a public offering of $1.5 billion of shares.

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