U.S. Stocks Edged Lower To Start The Week

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global shares rose after Paramount’s hostile takeover bid, while Netflix stock fell. And shares of Confluent surged after IBM announced plans to buy the data-infrastructure company. 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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0:34.7	bell brief for Monday, December 8th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.6	U.S. stocks edged lower today, with the S&P 500 falling almost 0.4% after recently approaching a record high.
0:46.4	The Dow Industrials declined about half a percent, and the NASDAQ slipped just over a tenth of a percent.
0:52.0	Despite the broader pullback, chipstocks rose as investors
0:55.0	anticipate a Federal Reserve interest rate cut on Wednesday. Among individual companies,
1:00.4	shares of both Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount Global rallied after Paramount launched a $77.9 billion
1:06.5	hostile takeover bid for the entertainment company. The offer comes days after Netflix's $72 billion deal for Warner's streaming and studio assets.
1:16.1	Warner stock rose 4.4% and Paramount shares rose 9%, while Netflix stock skidded 3.4%.
1:23.0	Confluent stock surged 29% after Tech Giant IBM announced plans to buy the data infrastructure company for about $11 billion.
1:31.3	Boeing announced it has completed its long-awaited acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems.
1:36.3	Shares of the plane maker rose 2%.
1:39.3	Berkshire Hathaway shares fell 1.4% after one of Warren Buffett's top lieutenants, Todd Combs, said
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