Carl Quintanilla and Sara Eisen – alongside David Faber, live from Liberty Media’s media day – broke down the results boosting Disney shares alongside this morning’s latest inflation and jobs data. Sara and Carl also hit the latest for Tapestry & Capri, as they call off their mega-merger. Also in focus: exclusives with Liberty Media’s Chairman John Malone on the many changes coming to the company and the media landscape, plus a deep dive with outgoing CEO Greg Maffei on his next ventures.

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Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with Disney shares surging on better-than-expected Q4 results and guidance. What's ahead for the company's streaming strategy? David interviewed Liberty Media Chairman John Malone -- the cable pioneer who will soon become the company's Interim CEO. At Liberty Media Investor Day, David spoke exclusively with Charter Communications CEO Chris Winfrey about the company's all-stock deal to acquire Liberty Broadband. Also in focus: Cisco's earnings beat, the post-election rally stalls, "China effect" on the markets, Delivering Alpha highlights -- from AI-generated video featuring David and Andrew Ross Sorkin, to Ben Affleck on linear as a "tremendous opportunity."

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Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen and David Faber began the hour with the markets, a day after the S&P and Nasdaq broke a 5-day win streak. Later in the hour, Eunice Yoon joined live from Beijing looking at the impact of President-elect Trump’s proposed China tariffs. Also in focus: the desk discussed the spike in Dogecoin following news that Elon Musk would join the new Trump administration, and ‘Heartbreak Is the National Anthem’ author Rob Sheffield joined the set at Post 9 to discuss the economic impact of Taylor Swift.

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