Evening links — October 2, 2026
Rick Santelli says goodbye after nearly 30 years at CNBC <Talking Biz News>
Bon voyage, Rick Santelli. CNBC will be much less entertaining without him.
Ikea to shutter 3 small-format plan and order stores <Retail Dive>
One Georgetown shop opened less than a year ago; closing it alongside two other plan-and-order locations complicates Ikea’s small-store experiment, launched amid a $2.2 billion U.S. expansion plan.
David Ellison has a new name for the combined Paramount and WBD <Business Insider>
The proposed $110 billion combination would take the name of Ellison’s original film studio, Skydance, while Paramount and Warner Bros. remain the legacy brands; the merger has not yet closed.