Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in a transaction that would make it the biggest listing of all time. The Elon Musk-led company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company, which would leave SpaceX near the market value that Saudi Aramco established during its record 20...
Dec 09, 2025•30 min
James D. White is a seasoned corporate leader with over thirty years' experience in the consumer products, retail, and restaurant industries. As CEO of Jamba Juice from 2008–2016, he led the successful turnaround and transformation of the company. He is an experienced corporate director and adviser with twenty years of experience serving on more than fifteen public and private boards. White currently chairs the board of the Honest Company. James explains why he believes that culture is essential...
Dec 09, 2025•12 min
Watch Bloomberg Businessweek Daily LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. The fight over the future of Hollywood just got nastier. Paramount Skydance Corp. launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. at $30 a share in cash on Monday, just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix Inc. The offer values Warner Bros. at $108.4 billion, including debt. The bid compares with Netflix’s offer of $27.75 in cash and stock, for an enterprise value of about $82.7 b...
Dec 08, 2025•34 min
Compass Pathways is a mental health care company developing new treatments for people who haven’t responded to existing medications and continue to struggle with their mental health. The company was the first to report successful Phase 3 clinical trial results for a psychedelic treatment, known as COMP360 psilocybin, for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and is positioned to potentially be the first to receive regulatory approval and bring a psychedelic-based medicine to market. Kabir Nath, t...
Dec 08, 2025•12 min
Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily." Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...
Dec 06, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Watch Bloomberg Businessweek Daily every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Netflix Inc. agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., marking a seismic shift in the entertainment business as a Silicon Valley-bred streaming giant tries to swallow one of Hollywood’s oldest and most revered studios. Under terms of the deal announced Friday, Warner Bros. shareholders will receive $27.75 a share in cash and stock in Netflix, valuing the business at $82.7 billion including debt. The total equity va...
Dec 05, 2025•38 min
Dr. Nupoor Narula, MD, MSc is the Bruce Lerman Clinical Scholar, cardiologist, and Director of the Cardiology Vascular Laboratory and Women’s Heart Program at Weill Cornell Medicine. An NIH-funded physician-investigator, her clinical and research interests include genetic aortic diseases and aortic aneurysms and dissections, with a special emphasis on these conditions in women and pregnancy. Dr. Narula recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health for her research on aortic an...
Dec 05, 2025•9 min
Watch Bloomberg Businessweek Daily LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc. Executives are considering potential budget cuts as high as 30% for the metaverse group next year, which includes the virtual worlds product Meta Horizon Worlds and its Quest virtua...
Dec 05, 2025•36 min
Holland, Michigan-based CraftCo. Brands has a diverse portfolio of craft spirits comprised of more than 30 spirits and liqueurs across the bourbon, gin, vodka, rye, and ready-to-drink categories. However, Bloomberg Intelligence notes that the use of weight-loss drugs stand to deepen alcohol's demand slump in the US and Europe, as moderation and wellness trends gain ground. Ali Anderson, the CEO of CraftCo., discusses the outlook for the spirits industry for 2026 and beyond, as well as changing c...
Dec 04, 2025•12 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . US companies shed payrolls in November by the most since early 2023, adding to concerns about a more pronounced weakening in the labor market. Private-sector payrolls decreased by 32,000, according to ADP Research data released Wednesday. Payrolls have now fallen four times in the last six months. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 10,000 gain. Wednesday’s weak ADP report risks heightening co...
Dec 03, 2025•36 min
New research from Bank of America Private Bank offers a rare look at how the world’s wealthiest families are preparing for a major generational handover, as nearly 60% expect a leadership transition within the next decade, and how next-gen leaders are reshaping investing, philanthropy, and innovation. The Bank of America Family Office Study captures over 300 family office leaders’ perspectives into how their organizations are navigating complexity and preparing for this seismic change. Elizabeth...
Dec 03, 2025•8 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . American Bitcoin Corp. stock plunged on Tuesday after restricted shares of the crypto miner co-founded by Eric Trump were freed up to be traded. The selloff was swift. Shares lost more than half of their value in less than 30 minutes as the equity lockup expired, triggering repeated trading halts. The stock pared declines later in the trading session. Shares from a private placement that took place before American Bitcoin mer...
Dec 02, 2025•33 min
Cybersecurity giant Zscaler is a pioneer and global leader in zero trust security. Many of the world’s largest businesses, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies rely on Zscaler to secure users, branches, applications, data & devices, and to accelerate digital transformation initiatives. The company says its "Zero Trust Exchange" platform is distributed across 160+ data centers globally, and combines with advanced AI to help combat billions of cyber threats and policy...
Dec 02, 2025•12 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . The start of a historically strong month on Wall Street saw stocks falling as traders shunned riskier corners of the market amid a selloff in cryptocurrencies. A rout in Japanese debt rippled through global bonds. Caution prevailed after a rally that drove the S&P 500 to its longest streak of monthly gains since 2021. The Russell 2000 gauge of small caps slid over 1%. Nearly $1 billion of leveraged crypto positions were l...
Dec 01, 2025•36 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . On this special edition of the show following Thanksgiving, Carol Massar and Vonnie Quinn discuss the day's trade, the state of the consumer and more. Today's show features: Dan O'Connell, CEO of Front Natalie Kotlyar Managing Principal & National Retail Consumer Products Industry Leader at Bdo Clint Henderson, Managing Editor at The Points Guy Norah Mulinda, Bloomberg TV markets correspondent on the day's trade See omnys...
Nov 28, 2025•24 min
Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily." Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...
Nov 28, 2025•1 hr 17 min
ACI Worldwide, an innovator in global payments technology, delivers software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time so banks, billers, and merchants can drive growth, while continuously modernizing their payment infrastructures, simply and securely. In addition to reporting strong third-quarter and year-to-date results, and raising its full-year 2025 outlook as it reported earnings, the company also recently entered into a strategic partnership with BitPay, the worl...
Nov 28, 2025•12 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . As President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine enters a fourth winter, Russians are having to come to grips with its growing impact on nearly every aspect of their daily lives. Dozens of regions in central and southern Russia are now feeling the war’s proximity as drones and sometimes missiles hit energy sites and residential buildings. Air raid sirens wail almost every night, offering a constant — and very public — reminder of...
Nov 26, 2025•32 min
A new HSBC report launched in collaboration with Know Your Value called "The Giving Shift: Global Living, Local Giving," shows a powerful transformation in how women across the US are building wealth and giving back. Moving away from performative, prestige-driven philanthropy, this new generation of women is ushering in a personal, grounded approach to giving—one rooted in community, family, and tangible impact. Racquel Oden, HSBC's US Head of International Wealth and Private Banking, discusses ...
Nov 26, 2025•9 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is seen by advisers and allies of President Donald Trump as the frontrunner to be the next Federal Reserve chair, according to people familiar with the matter, as the search for a new central bank leader enters its final weeks. With Hassett, Trump would have a close ally whom the president knows well and trusts installed at the independent central bank, the people s...
Nov 25, 2025•41 min
Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK) last week outlined its long-term growth strategy and financial outlook at its 2025 Investor Day. Upwork President and CEO Hayden Brown, CFO Erica Gessert, and other executives detailed how the company has fundamentally rewired its business over the last three years and is leading the reinvention of flexible work in the AI era. The company also unveiled its full year 2026 guidance and 2028 growth targets, seeing itself as well-positioned to capture a greater share of the $1....
Nov 25, 2025•8 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held their first talks since agreeing to a tariff truce last month, discussing trade, Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump said the telephone call was “very good” and that the leaders spoke about purchases of soybeans and other farm products as well as curbing shipments of illegal fentanyl. The US president said he agreed to visit Beijing in April,...
Nov 25, 2025•31 min
Frank Sorrentino III is Chairman and CEO of ConnectOne Bank (CNOB), which has banking offices across New Jersey, New York and South Florida. Mr. Sorrentino and other Bergen County civic and business leaders founded the bank to serve local residents and businesses by providing personalized community banking services. Mr. Sorrentino is responsible for the firm's business development plan, while also serving as its community liaison, and sitting on the loan committee. Sorrentino offers his take on ...
Nov 24, 2025•11 min
Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily." Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...
Nov 22, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . President Donald Trump said he wants to see Zohran Mamdani succeed, saying after a highly anticipated sit-down that he’d “feel very comfortable” living in a New York run by the mayor-elect and that he doesn’t anticipate cutting off funding for the country’s most populous city. “I expect to be helping him, not hurting him,” Trump said of Mamdani in a press conference that repeatedly stressed the two politicians’ political alig...
Nov 21, 2025•38 min
Hugh Herr is a driving force behind the creation of bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. His revolutionary work is in the emerging field of "Biomechatronics," a technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, he is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities. He currently serves as a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, and c...
Nov 21, 2025•9 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s Craig Packer has been something of a mainstay on the New York Stock Exchange in recent years, ringing the opening bell multiple times to toast the private credit giant’s public funds.On Wednesday, minutes after the market opened, his mood was anything but celebratory. Blue Owl had just announced it was scrapping a planned merger of two of its private credit funds, backtracking on a plan revealed Nov. 5...
Nov 20, 2025•41 min
BioRender is a leading AI-powered platform for scientific communication. It is designed to bridge communication gaps across specialties, roles, and decision-makers that slow scientific discovery. By combining figure creation, presentations, graphing, analysis, and collaborative whiteboarding, it reduces the need for fragmented design and illustration tools, meeting minutes, and personal notepads. Co-founded out of Y Combinator by Shiz Aoki in 2017, BioRender says it has become the most widely us...
Nov 20, 2025•8 min
Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, gave a strong revenue forecast for the current period, helping counter concern that a global surge in AI spending is poised to fizzle. Sales will be about $65 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, which runs through January, the chipmaker said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts had estimated $62 billion on average, with some predictions ranging as high as $75 billion. The outlo...
Nov 19, 2025•43 min
Farmgirl Flowers was launched back in 2010 as a one-woman-show when founder and CEO Christina Stembel began working from her dining room table with a vision to change the way people buy flowers online. Her company says its burlap-wrapped bouquets and vase arrangements are "designed to make recipients feel seen, loved, and celebrated." Now as the company celebrates its 15th anniversary, its leader is doubling down on her commitment to build for growth rather than building to sell. Christina discu...
Nov 19, 2025•12 min
