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Nia Warfield, Luke Kawa

S&P 500 extends winning streak to six on tariff relief and solid earnings

The S&P 500 gained for its sixth consecutive day, the longest such streak since September, as investors cheered a slate of mostly positive corporate earnings (even as companies were skittish to provide details on their outlooks) and welcomed fresh tariff relief on autos. The Nasdaq 100 even briefly erased all of its losses since the April 2 close, just before reciprocal tariffs were announced in the Rose Garden.

The S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 all gained 0.6%.

Energy was the lone S&P 500 sector ETF to finish in the red, while financials led the way higher.

The White House said that vehicles made with at least 85% domestic and USMCA-compliant content would be exempt from tariffs for the next year (a big boon for Tesla, in particular).

Hims & Hers shares soared after the telehealth company announced a partnership with Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk, boosting optimism around the company’s weight-loss push.

Meanwhile, a busy stretch of earnings continued to steer stock action on the day.

Coca-Cola shares ticked higher after the beverage and snacks giant topped earnings expectations by a penny and moved more volumes than analysts anticipated.

UPS reversed early gains after its Q2 revenue guidance missed estimates by about $100 million, with tariffs expected to squeeze margins by more than analysts had feared.

Royal Caribbean jumped as much as 5% after strong Q1 results and a surprisingly upbeat profit outlook, but the stock gave back most of those gains by the close as enthusiasm waned.

CoreWeave surged as much as 10% on a flurry of options demand for the recently IPO’d cloud computing company. The number of call options traded on the day was the highest in the company’s short history as a publicly traded firm.

SoFi snapped its losing streak, moving slightly higher after posting a Q1 beat and raise. The fintech stock had lagged before the report, after posting a blockbuster 2024.

JetBlue shares popped despite the airline pulling its full-year forecast and posting another Q1 loss — its sixth straight — though the $0.59 per-share loss still came in better than expected.

Brinker shares sank nearly 14%, even after the Chili’s and Maggiano’s Little Italy parent topped Q3 estimates and raised guidance, as enthusiasm waned on Wall Street.

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Max Knoblauch

Southwest cuts its earnings outlook on lost revenue due to government shutdown

Another big four airline has put a price tag on the 43-day government shutdown.

Southwest Airlines on Friday said lower revenue due to a temporary decline in demand during the shutdown, together with higher fuel costs, will ding its annual earnings before interest and taxes by between $100 million and $300 million. The carrier lowered its full-year EBIT outlook to $500 million, down from a prior range of $600 million to $800 million.

According to Southwest’s filing, bookings have returned to previous expectations following the end of the shutdown. Its shares dipped down about 1% in premarket trading.

The carrier joins Delta Air Lines in assigning a cost to the government closure. Earlier this week, Delta said the shutdown would cost it $200 million in the fourth quarter.

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Luke Kawa

Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. and HBO assets for less than it’s spent to add content since the pandemic started

What would you, as a viewer, rather watch:

Every new piece of content that’s appeared on Netflix since the pandemic started, or all the original series ever produced by HBO as well as the 100-year-plus portfolio of Warner Bros. films?

That’s one lens through which to view the streaming giant’s agreement to buy Warner Bros. studio and streaming assets for an equity value of $72 billion or an enterprise value of $82.7 billion (which factors in the debt Netflix is assuming from the acquired entity).

Since the end of 2019, Netflix has sent over $87 billion in cash out the door to add content assets to its vast library.

The good news is that presumably, you won’t have to make that choice. Presumably, in the event that this merger is approved and any existing distribution deals lapse, this library will be rolled up under one roof. That’ll probably entail higher subscription costs for Netflix subscribers; what the net cost for those who subscribe to both services ends up being is one of many things that are very much up in the air.

“By adding the deep film and TV libraries and HBO and HBO Max programming, Netflix members will have even more high-quality titles from which to choose,” per the press release. “This also allows Netflix to optimize its plans for consumers, enhancing viewing options and expanding access to content.”

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Luke Kawa

Oklo slides after launching $1.5 billion at-the-market equity offering program

Oklo has no revenues and an extremely high valuation.

Put the two together and this happens:

After the close on Thursday, a filing showed that the nuclear energy company entered into a pact with various financial institutions to sell up to $1.5 billion worth of its stock in an at-the-market equity offering program.

Shares are down about 5.5% as of 7:20 a.m. ET.

This is Oklo’s third equity offering of the year, per Bloomberg data.

The stock had been on a tear recently ahead of this announcement, rising nearly 30% over the prior three sessions amid elevated options market activity.

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Hyunsoo Rim

SoFi Technologies slides on $1.5 billion share sale announcement at $27.50 a share

SoFi Technologies is down more than 7% in early trading on Friday after the company revealed plans to raise $1.5 billion through a public stock offering, with shares to be priced at $27.50 each — a discount of roughly 7% from Thursday’s closing price of $29.60.

The offering includes a 30-day option for the underwriters to purchase up to 8,181,818 more shares, equivalent to an additional 15% of the nominal offering, which is expected to close December 8.

Proceeds from the offering will go toward “general corporate purposes,” SoFi said, including “enhancing capital position, increasing optionality and enabling further efficiency of capital management, and funding incremental growth and business opportunities.”

The sale comes as SoFi’s stock has been on a tear this year — nearly doubling (up 97%) in 2025 before this morning’s slump. The company also posted better-than-expected Q3 sales and profits back in October, driven by growth outside its original lending business, including trading, wealth management, mortgages, and credit cards.

CEO Anthony Noto has repeatedly emphasized SoFi’s push beyond lending. In November, the company launched a priority waitlist for SoFi Crypto, enabling users to trade dozens of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, and solana.

The stock is hovering around the offering price of $27.50 on Friday.

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Tom Jones

Netflix agrees to $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming and studio businesses, at $27.75 per share

Netflix this morning announced that it will acquire the Warner Bros. side of the Warner Bros. Discovery business — which includes its studio and streaming businesses — in a deal worth $82.7 billion, or $27.75 per share.

Per the press release:

“The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.”

The streaming giant beat out competition from other suitors like Comcast and Paramount Skydance, the latter of which had been crying foul about the sales process just yesterday, having sought a deal for the WBD business in full, including its vast array of networks, which will now be spun out as Discovery Global.

Unless halted by regulators, when the deal closes in the estimated 12 to 18 months, Netflix will pick up IP such as the “Harry Potter” franchise and DC universe through the Warner Bros. studio division, as well as the company’s burgeoning streaming division, including HBO Max — an addition that one recent report suggested might not significantly boost Netflix’s market share, sending shares tumbling on Wednesday.

While it’s still far too early to say what impact the potential deal will have on the biggest film and TV streaming business in the world, and the wider world of entertainment in general, NFLX investors haven’t seemed hugely enthused by the prospect throughout the process, and shares have slipped as much as ~3.2% in premarket trading.

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