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Wall Street Breakfast

House of Mouse showdown

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Iger and Peltz face off in Disney annual shareholder meeting. (0:20) March payrolls seen up by 200,000. (1:13) Microsoft and OpenAI to build Stargate supercomputer. (4:04)

Show Notes
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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street brunch, our Sunday look ahead to this

0:09.5

week's market-moving events along with the weekend's top news and analysis.

0:14.0

Hello, today is Sunday March 31st and I'm your host Kim Kahn.

0:18.0

The top stories to look out for this week.

0:20.0

The Battle for the House of Mouse comes to head on Wednesday,

0:23.0

Walt Disney holds its annual shareholders meeting,

0:25.0

and investors are expected to cast their votes

0:27.5

to elect a 12-member board,

0:29.5

ending a months-long fight between Nelson Peltz's

0:32.0

Tryon Fund Management, which is vying for

0:34.1

control, and Disney CEO Bob Eager. The proxy battle took a new turn this week

0:38.6

as the California Public Employees Retirement System, known as Calpers, told Reuters it believes

0:43.4

Walt Disney will benefit from fresh eyes on its board of directors and

0:46.4

voted its company shares in favor of candidates Nelson Peltz and former

0:50.4

Disney CFO Jay Resula.

0:52.8

Trian's campaign officially launched in early 2024

0:55.8

and has drawn support from key stakeholders,

0:58.2

including influential proxy advisory firm

1:00.4

Institutional shareholder services,

1:02.3

which is backed Peltz's candidacy, but not Risulos.

1:05.7

CalPERS, the biggest public pension plan in the U.S. owned 6.65 million Disney shares at the end of

1:10.7

2023.

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