Disney Shares Slump After Latest Quarterly Results
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your midday brief for Thursday, November 13th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:10.9 | A key Disney operating profit measure fell 5% in the company's latest quarter, while revenue was nearly |
| 0:16.7 | unchanged from last year. The $22.46 billion in sales fell short of Wall Street expectations, |
| 0:24.0 | and shares are down in morning trading. The company's parks and streaming businesses posted profit |
| 0:29.2 | gains, but investors remain worried about Disney's ability to manage the transition from |
| 0:34.4 | traditional TV to streaming and to execute on the multi-billion dollar |
| 0:38.9 | investments it is making in theme parks and cruise ships. Disney says it will return more cash to investors, |
| 0:45.5 | doubling stock buybacks, and increasing its dividend. We are exclusively reporting that |
| 0:51.4 | cursor, a startup that makes an AI coding tool favored by engineers, |
| 0:55.5 | has raised $2.3 billion in its third funding round this year, |
| 0:59.8 | valuing the company at $29.3 billion. |
| 1:03.2 | New investors include Google, which provides AI services in cloud computing to the startup, |
| 1:08.2 | and Nvidia, an enterprise customer. |
| 1:11.0 | Cursor's tool launched in 2023 and has a cult following in tech, with fans including the |
| 1:16.3 | CEOs of NVIDIA and Stripe. |
| 1:18.7 | Cursor has rebuffed acquisition interest from a number of major AI companies, according to people |
| 1:23.2 | familiar with the matter. |
| 1:25.5 | And the IRS says workers will be able to contribute as much as $24,500 |
| 1:30.6 | in their 401ks in 2026, up $1,000 from the maximum contribution limit this year. For IRAs, |
| 1:38.7 | the maximum contribution is increasing $500 to $7,500. If you're 50 years old and older, you can contribute more money to those accounts. |
| 1:49.1 | 401Ks and IRAs are the main way Americans save for retirement, |
| 1:53.2 | and the limits on annual contributions are raised every year to adjust for inflation. |
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