What's News in Markets: Cautious Consumers, Dollar Retailers, Media Megadeal
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:28.2 | Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but we'll be back with more personal |
| 0:32.9 | finance information for you in the future. |
| 0:35.5 | Until then, here's the news moving markets this week. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey, listeners. |
| 0:42.8 | It's Saturday, December 6th. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:47.9 | and this is What's News and Markets, |
| 0:49.7 | our look at the biggest stock moves of the week |
| 0:51.7 | and the news that drove them. |
| 0:55.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:01.7 | Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving last week, for those who observe. This week, we got our first full trading week of December, starting with a cryptocurrency slump and peppered |
| 1:07.6 | with earnings reports and other corporate updates throughout, including retailers and consumer companies. |
| 1:13.8 | More on which ones were the winners and losers, so to speak, in a minute. |
| 1:18.0 | And Friday brought us a nice big M&A surprise. |
| 1:22.3 | The winner of the rounds of bidding for Warner Brothers Discovery was, |
| 1:27.5 | Drum roll please, Netflix. |
| 1:30.6 | But before I talk about how shares of all the players reacted, |
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