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Disney investors are focused on streaming, but don’t forget about theme parks
Handout | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images LOS ANGELES – In April last year I took a stroll down an empty Main Street in Disneyland with the head of Walt Disney theme parks, Josh D’Amaro. The California park was a week from opening after more than a year of being shuttered due to Covid-19 […]
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How a blockbuster-packed summer could lend a hand to the struggling streaming stocks
The release of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ushers in a line-up of big movie franchises hitting theaters this summer. Source
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Stocks could see more tumult next week, especially if bond yields continue to scream higher
After a week of extraordinary turbulence, stocks are likely to remain volatile as investors await fresh data on inflation and watch the course of bond yields. The big report for markets is Wednesday’s April consumer price index. Economists expect a high inflation reading, but it should moderate from the 8.5% year-over-year pace of March. A […]
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From Estee Lauder to Apple, big companies say China’s Covid restrictions are hitting business
Factories in China affected by Covid lockdowns can conditionally resume work, by housing workers on-site. Pictured here is an auto parts manufacturer in Suzhou that has had 478 employees on site since April 16. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Several international corporations warned in the last week the drag from China’s […]
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Your kids can learn life lessons from investing and trading in stocks — here’s how
Trading stocks has become much easier for young traders in the last few years – thanks to fintech apps like Robinhood and Greenlight. Robinhood, for example, drew unprecedented levels of young, first-time traders to the stock market during the pandemic. The rise of such trading platforms that allow kids to buy stocks can be viewed […]
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Major companies keep largely silent as leaked Supreme Court abortion draft sparks outrage
Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court, after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, U.S. May 3, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters […]
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‘We do crazy stuff’: How cinemas are going beyond studio marketing to lure moviegoers back
A Regal Cinemas movie theater stands at night on 42nd Street in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Amir Hamja | Bloomberg | Getty Images “If you build it, they will come.” Universal’s president of domestic theatrical distribution borrowed the iconic line from “Field of Dreams” during the studios slate presentation at CinemaCon […]
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Bill Murray reflects on inappropriate behavior that led to the shutdown of his latest film
Bill Murray is still reflecting on his inappropriate behavior, which led to a production shutdown on the Searchlight Pictures’ film “Being Mortal” last week. On Saturday, the actor told CNBC that he had a “difference of opinion” with a woman he was working with on the film, saying, “I did something I thought was funny […]
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Disney executive Geoff Morrell, who helped craft response to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, leaves company after three months
Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Employees are staging a company-wide walkout today to protest Walt Disney Co.’s response to controversial legislation passed in Florida known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Octavio Jones | Getty Images News | Getty […]
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Meet Sox, the breakout star of Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ — and the next hot toy
Disney screened the first 30 minutes of its new Pixar film “Lightyear” at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday, but the biggest buzz among attendees wasn’t for the title character at the center of the “Toy Story” origin story. That distinction went to a small robotic cat named Sox. The ginger and white mechanical feline […]
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