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Wall Street Skeptical Of GameStop CEO's $56 Billion eBay Takeover Bid Summary: Wall Street analysts "skeptical" on GameStop Takeover of eBay GameStop CEO Reveals Unsolicited Offer to Buy eBay Wall Street Analysts Respond eBay shares jumped as much as 13% in New York premarket trading after GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal that he had submitted a $56 billion takeover bid for the online marketplace. Cohen's deal appears to be part of his strategy to transform eBay into a direct competitor to Amazon, leveraging GameStop's retail footprint and logistics infrastructure to create...

Oracle & OpenAI Scrap Texas Data Center Expansion Plan, Sending AI Stocks Lower AI-related stocks are sliding late in the New York cash session after Bloomberg News reported that Oracle and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, from about 1.2 GW to 2.0 GW. Sources said the expansion was canceled after talks stalled over financing issues and OpenAI's changing demand forecasts. However, the collapse of the Oracle-OpenAI plans has opened the door for Meta, which is now in talks to lease the...

Iranian forces boarded a ship near the UAE. The vessel potentially contained a cache of weapons.  On Thursday, armed men boarded a ship near the United Arab Emirates, and it sailed to Iranian waters. The vessel has been identified as the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan. The BBC reports that the ship was being used as a […]