What began the year as one of the best trades in the stock market has, in a matter of months, turned into one of the worst.

The Netflix Inc. plans that clinched the deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. started to shape up around Thanksgiving.

Airline passengers preparing to land in Berlin just in time for Halloween were in for a nasty surprise when the engines of the aircraft suddenly revved up again and the plane began circling over the German capital.

Netflix Inc.’s $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. includes one of the biggest breakup fees of all time — a $5.8 billion penalty that Netflix has agreed to pay its target if the deal falls apart or fails to win regulatory approval.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev largely lost a legal fight over whether his family trust was on the hook to provide tens of millions of dollars to a US venture capital firm to finance life-science startups.

Netflix Inc. has agreed to purchase the streaming and studio assets of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in a $72 billion deal that’s likely to impact the entertainment industry for decades.

Waymo said it will file a voluntary software recall with US federal authorities after its autonomously driven vehicles repeatedly failed to fully slow or stop for school buses.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled.