Disney Gains
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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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