How to read tea leaves with a paramount-dance agreement of $ 8 million

Everyone is reading the leaves of tea these days in the agreement apparently forever stopped of $ 8 billion.

Wall Street Fortune’s Tellers continue to look for clues as to whether Paramount’s heiress, Shari Redstone, will pay President Trump who wants to resolve a $ 20 billion demand against his CBS subsidiary?

And if it does, it will be enough to get the agreement to approve its diffusion regulators.

There are, at least in part, to cut the malakey, and say -you are the last leaves of tea that are examining closely are (as a certain playwright said) full of sound and fury, which means nothing.

One of those leaves of tea led to the suggestion that Paramount fired people earlier this week, a 3% abrupt staff, because it is planning that the agreement will not happen.

The layoffs of this magnitude often produce not when two parts are about to merge, but long before or when there is no agreement in the works. The thought is that current management is resizing the business because they plan to operate Paramount for the predictable future.

As the money was first to inform, the upper paramount brass, apart from Redstone (he recovers herself due to the potential payment) – cares about the optics of paying Trump so that Shari can move away from what is left of the nest egg that the father has left, the late melting Impresario Sumner Redstone.

They fear that the company could open to bribery positions by setting the frivolous demand, claiming that “60 minutes” was deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris in the middle of the campaign (Trump won the election, so there are no damage) – that his counselors and officers do not cover if any prosecutor presented a case.

Everything is true, but the layoffs had little to do with the future of the agreement, in one way or another, people close the transaction about the money.

Skydance was planning to have Paramount so far and was planning the same cuts to make numbers work before it could invest and grow the business, according to sources.

With the agreement to Limbo, Paramount did so first, so cross this tea leaf on your list.

The second tea leaf is a little more interesting, though I am told, so important to the result of the agreement.

This is the appearance of Skydance’s head, David Ellison Ringside, in a UFC deck 314 in Miami several weeks ago with Trump, who was shaking hands and handed a hand with the tastes of Joe Rogan and Shaquille O’Neal.

The Tea Leave Reading Talk specified that the agreement is again: Trump cannot wait to approve it as a favor to David’s father, and Trump Bestie, Larry Ellison. Why would Trump look with Larry’s boy if he were about to screw?

Except, guess who was next to Trump when Trump went through the crowd? Elon Musk, yes, Elon who had just called Trump some really unpleasant names. So unpleasant that earlier this week, Elon issued a semi-apology. He was sitting with his son, not far from young Ellison and Trump.

So believe it, too, treatment observers tell me.

For now, those looking for clues about how this point of view is over will have to turn a new tea leaf.