A federal Appeals Court puts a texas Border Security law on hold again only hours after the u. S. Supreme Court Allowed it to go into effect. Now we go back to square one with oral arguments in a Court Hearing beginning two hours from now. Much more on that coming up momentarily. First, however, there is this right now. If he does not show up, then it is not going to end well for the bidens. They will be multiple criminal referrals. Bill is Hunter Biden Bluffing . The first son says he wont show up for a public hearing on his overseas Business Dealings but he has surprised us in the past. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer live in new york. The hearing begins in an hour. Hello. Dana ready for it . These hearings happening at a good time in our hour. Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Less than an hour from now is when the House Oversight committee will hold the public hearing on the bidens alleged Influence Peddling. Two of Hunter Bidens Business Associates will appear and
those the 2024 presidential ballot. counting has begun ir after those counting has begun in pakistan after a campaign marred by violence. president zelensky fires the chief of the army. a new study suggests erectile dysfunction drugs could also reduce the risk of alzheimer s disease. let s round up the business news of the day. we start with the entertainment giant disney whose share values have climbed by nearly 10% today after better than expected earnings were posted after the bell on wednesday. disney followed up with hand outs for investors in the form of share buy backs and bigger dividends. along with a number of major deals and upcoming events that clearly has markets excited. erin delmore is in new york for us. first of all, those investors will be pretty happy today, won t they? they well and they will be even happier if they check the stock price is right now. what is this news based on? a great earnings report yesterday from disney and from good news for inves
of this fiscal year. the news comes as pressure mounts from an activist investor who s been critical of the company, including its disappointing stats at the box office. the company also narrowed its losses specifically in streaming. disney plus increased prices this fall and lost subscribers over that. but because each subscriber is paying more for the service, its average revenue per user went up. disney plus is streaming offerings include espn plus the focus of a lot of attention this week. the company announced earlier this week that it s partnering with fox and warner brothers discovery to launch a new sports streaming operation with espn this year. and ceo bob iger said wednesday that the company is taking a $1.5 billion stake in epic games. it s disney s biggest move in the game space, yet. another focus of attention, disney and politics again after a very public, multi year spat with and lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis, who accused the company of being l
quite good value for money and people think i am insane for saying that but what other eventin saying that but what other event in the world have you got where everybody is watching the same thing at the same time and everybody is talking about the adverts? good to have you with us. let s talk business with me, sally bundock. we start with walt disney because the century old entertainment giant is battling to turn itself around in a fast changing world. disney s shares have lost over half their value since 2021, wiping out around $200 billion, on concerns it s not adapting fast enough to our changing media habits. some shareholders are pushing for disney to be broken up. on wednesday, disney came out swinging, with better than expected numbers and handouts to investors in the form of share buybacks and bigger dividends. it has also announced a big move into the gaming world, buying part of fortnight publisher epic. erin delmore has more. disney says it s on pace to bring in m
some trading restrictions put on the market three days ago. we had a situation already where sentiment has been weakening since about mid january on the lack of stimulus measures by the government. so after the last inflation numbers, so we could have an overreaction, but then again the trading restrictions being what they are right now it s very hard to play out the numbers especially with ten days of holidays coming up after tomorrow. days of holidays coming up after tomorrow. , ., ., after tomorrow. yes. so what do ou think after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction from - after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction from the l you think the reaction from the chinese government is going to be then to these numbers that are worst than expected? i think because of the holiday period, they may be buying themselves a few days to think about what to do