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Wall Street Breakfast

Disney Gains

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Disney (DIS) earnings call: Company cutting 7,000 jobs, aims to restore dividend in '23. Why did Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) stock slip? Blame Bard mistake, underwhelming AI event. Affirm (AFRM) stock sinks as outlook dimmed on higher borrowing costs, 19% job cuts announced.

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Netflix expands account-sharing approach to four countries

Post to buy 9Lives, other pet food brands from Smucker in $1.2B deal

Google Labs VP exiting to form AI start-up with Salesforce ex Taylor

Affirm stock sinks as outlook dimmed on higher borrowing costs, 19% job cuts announced

Mike Fay with BlockChain Reaction: https://seekingalpha.com/author/mike-fay

The 'Optimism' Is Strong In This One

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0:00.0

AI will make life simple they say but is simple good if they get it wrong alphabet has the answer

0:09.2

Welcome to seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:15.8

Good morning, today is Thursday, February 9th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:20.6

Our top stories.

0:22.1

Bob Eiger announces 7,000 job cuts company wide at Disney.

0:26.6

He also hints at a return of the dividend.

0:29.9

AI has been the hot topic all week, but there was a slip up by

0:33.6

alphabets barred. The market also showed on Wednesday that it's not keen to

0:37.2

tolerate any mistakes. Seeking alphas Kevin Curran tells us the AI mistake

0:42.4

caught by humans. And today is

0:45.3

crypto Thursday. The question on I think everybody's mind is is when the

0:48.8

bottom is in or do we know and how do we know? Our weekly contributor Mike Fay with the blockchain reaction service on Seeking Alpha says there's no easy

0:58.3

answer but he walks us through his process.

1:02.6

We begin with Disney.

1:04.3

Disney announces an earnings beat a job cuts fewer subscribers for Disney Plus and a possible

1:10.3

return of the stocks dividend.

1:12.6

Bob Eiger confirmed on the company's earnings conference call

1:15.9

that they will be cutting 7,000 workers across the company.

1:19.7

Disney is a large company, so 7,000 jobs is only 3% of employees.

1:25.0

The not so new CEO is reforming the company into three business units,

1:29.6

Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Parks experiences and products.

1:36.0

Alongside that will come a push for efficiency that targets five and a half billion dollars in cost savings.

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