President Trump has just signed a deal sanctioning his plan to transfer operational control of TikTok to a consortium of American investors — noting he did so after a “very good talk with President Xi.”Trump, who plans to meet Xi next month in South Korea on the sidelines of the APEC summit, said “we have great American investors,” but named only Larry Ellison of Oracle. “I spoke with President Xi,” he said. “We had a good talk. I told him what we were doing and he said, ‘Go ahead with it.’”This is a develo ...

Welcome back to Market on Close. I'm Marley Caden here in Chicago alongside Sam Bodis at the New York Stock Exchange. As we like to close out our show with some final thoughts or standout headlines on the session, a few stand out to me.CarMax, of course, one of them hitting a new 5-year low was the biggest loser in the S&P after missing in its second quarter earnings estimates. And both the top and bottom lines. Retail used car sales were down 5% year-over-year, and CarMax's auto financing income fell more ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that allows TikTok's U.S. operations to be moved away from the social media app's China-based owner ByteDance. The deal will see TikTok's U.S. operations separated from ByteDance to comply with a law that bans social media platforms subject to control by adversarial foreign governments like China.A group led by software giant Oracle that includes private equity firm Silver Lake and UAE state-owned investment firm MGX will be the main investors in ...

Key TakeawaysTikTok's US operations are valued at $14 billion, with Oracle (ORCL), Dell (DELL), and Rupert Murdoch identified among key investors, alongside Abu Dhabi’s MGX and Silver Lake, with Oracle expected to play a major role in the app’s security.President Trump announced that the US government expects to generate tax revenue from the TikTok deal, which he stated has China's support, despite some earlier indications of resistance.Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) reported robust Q4 2025 earnings, s ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declaring that a plan for TikTok‘s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of the wildly popular video app meets the requirements of a 2024 law. In recent weeks, there have been reports that a consortium including Oracle chairman Larry Ellison and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell would be part of a group to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations via a joint venture. Fox Corp. also is in talks to become a backer. White House Press S ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday declaring that his plan to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will meet the requirements in a 2024 law that says th... ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S. in a transaction that Vice President JD Vance said values the business at $14 billion.The deal satisfies the requirements of a national security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. operations or face an effective ban in the country, according to the executive order. Under the terms, which China must still approve, a new joint-venture company will oversee TikTok's U ...

I I want to ask about Oracle in particular because Oracle seems like it's on top of the world right now, right. It's been, you know, it looks like it's going to get part of this US slice of Tik Tok. Um it's been signing these new deals.There's the whole Stargate situation. Um but it sounds like you have some reservations about all of that. Yeah.So again, let's separate what's uh what's real valuable and and what's uh a little bit of a speculation. Uh Oracle getting the Tik Tok business is a windfall. uh the ...

is about 40% below where we are right now. We got the analyst behind the call. That is Alex Hazel joining us now live from London.Alex, I'm sure uh you've received some choice and colorful comments to your email inbox today. Uh but you call it as you see it. We appreciate it.What is the basis of this call. Um yeah, first of all, thanks for having me on the show. The basis is really we see like big headline figures in terms of like order wins and also revenues but our work really shows that the value uh subs ...

Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will emerge as the lead investors in TikTok's US operations under a proposed restructuring of the short-video app, reported CNBC, citing sources. The deal is d... ...