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Fox Corp. agreed to acquire Roku Inc. in a deal valued at about $22 billion including debt, creating a new television juggernaut and marking a big push into ad-supported streaming.  The deal will blend Fox's sports, news and entertainment channels, including the free, ad-supported Tubi, with Roku's streaming platform of more than 100 million subscribers, the companies said in a statement Monday. The acquisition will create the third-largest player in the US television market by share of viewing, spanning broadcast, cable, local and streaming, the companies said. "This combination will transform the scope of our company into high-growth verticals and yield a step change in our overall growth profile," Fox Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch said in the statement. For more on Fox's acquisition of Roku, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst on US Media, Geetha Ranganathan, joins Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Intelligence."

Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute, said that the US may incentivize further talks with Iran by unfreezing some assets seized during the course of the conflict after a short-term deal is signed to extend a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Talking with French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the G7 summit, President Trump told reporters that his attention is also turning back to Russia and Ukraine now that that short-term deal with Iran is done. Farkas said Russians have never been weaker militarily, economically, and politically than they are now.

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Salesforce Inc. has agreed to buy Fin, a firm that develops artificial intelligence-powered customer agents, for about $3.6 billion as the software company works to win new business for enterprise AI. Fin's flagship product, AI Agent, handles customer queries via chat, email, WhatsApp, text message, phone and Slack. Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst Anurag Rana joined Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Intelligence."

"Data centers in space" may sound like science fiction, but as the SpaceX IPO augurs a space boom, tech giants and startups are betting orbital artificial intelligence is the next frontier.

Copper rallies as the U.S. and Iran strike an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, easing a key risk for commodity markets. Ivanhoe Electric CEO Taylor Melvin joins "Bloomberg Open Interest" to discuss the outlook for the metal ahead of President Trump's decision on copper tariffs.

As investors pile into the space sector following SpaceX's blockbuster debut, Redwire Chairman and CEO Peter Cannito joins "Bloomberg Open Interest" to discuss the next phase of the space economy and the infrastructure needed to support it.

SpaceX extends its post-IPO rally, while airline stocks take off as the US-Iran strike an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu joins "Bloomberg Open Interest" to break down the latest moves in aerospace and airlines.

Bloomberg Intelligence media analyst Geetha Rangananthan says this deal makes a lot of strategic sense because it gives Fox more of a gateway into streaming.  The acquisition will create the third-largest player in the US television market by share of viewing, spanning broadcast, cable, local and streaming, the companies said. She appears on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

Just three weeks into the job, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is already facing an unusually high-stakes test. Inflation is roaring back at the fastest pace in three years. There's growing dissent among the central bank's policymakers. And investors have been dumping US Treasury bonds and piling into bets the Fed will need to start raising rates by December, defying President Trump's call to lower them instead.  We look ahead to this week's FOMC decision with Rebecca Patterson, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations & former Chief Investment Strategist at Bridgewater Associates.

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Roku (ROKU) is higher while Fox (FOX) is declining on news Fox agreed to acquire Roku in a deal that values the streaming video platform at about $22 billion including debt. - United Airlines (UAL) is surging with airlines stocks up around 4% ahead of the open after the U.S. and Iran reached an interim peace deal. - Coinbase (COIN) and Robinhood (HOOD) are following Bitcoin higher amid broader risk appetite with the US-Iran interim deal.

The US Commerce Department imposed export controls on June 12 restricting Anthropic from offering its most advanced AI models to foreign nationals. In response, Anthropic announced it would halt access to these models for all users, citing the impracticality of policing usage on a case-by-case basis and noting that many of its employees are foreign nationals who would also be affected. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest."