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What stands out

Bloomberg used a holiday morning to stitch together three big threads: the legal update on Paramount’s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Oracle’s week-ahead earnings preview, and Apple’s marquee product event that will also mark John Ternus’s first real test as CEO. For investors, this is a concentration of short-term catalysts that also have longer-term consequences, M&A legal outcomes can reshape media economics, Oracle’s numbers will reframe the cloud debate, and Apple’s product cadence matters for a stock whose fundamentals look strained.