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>> the Stock Movers Report, your roundup of

companies making moves in the stock

market, harnessing the power of

Bloomberg data. I'm Carol Messer along

with Emily Grafo. Let's get to some

stocks on the move on this Monday.

Bloomberg News managing editor for

Bloomberg Markets live blog, Christina

Kino, is in the house. Um, there were

some stocks moving even though there was

like general malaise in the trade. Where

shall we begin?

>> Yeah. Well, let's talk about PayPal

because just because it's a snow day

doesn't mean that M&A Monday has to stop

and is very much uh attracting M&A

interest. And as a result of those

shares, sticker PYPPL are up more than

5% nearly 6% actually uh as of the

close. And so the details are that the

company is attracting takeover interest

from potential buyers. has fielded uh

meetings with several banks regarding

this. At least one large rival is

looking at the whole company while some

other suitors are only interested in

certain PayPal assets. So this is all

according to Bloomer sources who have uh

uh divulged some of those uh

information. And you know this is all

because PayPal has lost about half of

its value over the last 12 months. It's

currently trading at $4069 a share

versus $75 just over a year ago. And so

it makes a lot of sense. It's attracting

>> so much.

>> I mean a lot of challenges probably

related to uh payments competition,

right? Uh I guess so, right?

>> Yeah. Cuz I mean a lot of uh banks,

right? Like are diving into that space

in addition to kind of more traditional

competitors like uh Venmo, Zel, all that

stuff. So many different choices.

>> Yeah. Alternative ways to pay for

things.

>> Too many choices. Yeah, I would say.

>> Too many choices.

>> All right. Uh let's go to MX. There's a

great story right that we've been all

talking about this research.

>> Absolutely. Yes. And that is exactly why

we have seen American Express shares

sticker AXP down 7% uh as of the close

and yes as you mentioned Carol all

because of the Catrini research report

again interesting because they're

outlining a scenario. It's not a

prediction uh but it still struck a

nerve in markets and so American Express

one of the companies named in that

report as companies that are very

vulnerable to a disruption uh that will

could be caused by AI if this scenario

comes to light and you know some of the

hypothetical scenarios uh that Catrini

research looked at uh really seeing

credit card companies like AMX as well

as food delivery services among the

companies that are facing trouble and

yeah we've seen now those shares down by

the almost in 10 months as a result of

that.

>> A lot of it having to do with what you

said, AI disruption. Like so many of

these companies are built on what they

lay out as human intelligence. And they

talk about how human intelligence will

really deteriorate as AI gets more

powerful.

>> Yeah.

>> Depending on if you side with the robots

or the people is going to depend on

whether that's good or not.

>> I don't know. Oh, it's like I feel like

so many people have said about it's how

we will work and interact and use AI in

our jobs and how we do things. And so I

don't know is it just like taking an app

to another level, you know what I mean?

Like we now there are things that I used

to pick up a phone or talk to somebody

about that I just do automatically on an

app. So I don't know.

>> But there's something about the human

interaction still, right? Particularly

in serviceoriented industries like

credit cards. I actually would much

rather speak to a human about my credit

card bill uh than than a robot. So there

you go.

>> Or a chapat of some sort. Uh one thing

we all like to do, I think it's safe to

say, is eat pizza. Um Domino's. Let's

get to

>> we got to talk about pizza today. And

Domino's specifically. So ticker DPO

shares are up 4% uh at the close. And

that is because they did report a larger

than expected rise in uh same store

sales. Consumers definitely uh being

drawn to the pizza chains budget

friendly pies and yeah, we've seen an

increase of 3.7% in the fourth quarter

for their same store sales and that's

well above the 3.3% that was projected

by analysts and of course uh we're also

seeing an optimistic projection from

them for that same metric. They're

looking at about a 3% rise for that uh

for the full year in 2026. And yeah, a

lot of that because of this uh best deal

ever pizza promotion. So what's what's

the verdict on Domino's then, Carol? I I

>> Oh, I know. I know.

>> It's been a while since you partaken.

>> My husband used to love I think Dominoes

and so I think occasionally or we'd be

on the road and I'd have to go.

>> It's in its own world. I'm not saying

it's like the same as a New York or

Connecticut.

>> That's a different Is it a coal fired

oven? I

>> I don't think Is it even an oven? I

think it is. They have ovens. Cheap pies

and stuffed crust driving the sales

video.

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