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This is the first report under new CEO Josh D'Amaro.

Walt Disney Co.'s theme parks division reported an increase in revenue and slight boost to operating income in the company's fiscal second quarter earnings released Wednesday.

Shares in Advanced Micro Devices and Intel surge after AMD CEO Lisa Su flags surging demand for central processing units.

↗️Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): Shares of the chipmaker soared premarket after it reported stronger sales and logged higher profit. Shares of its peer Super Micro Computer Inc. (SMCI) also jumped premarket.

Shares have tumbled 12% in 2026, dragged down by concerns about slow earnings growth and macro headwinds.

Earnings season marches on this week as investors will hear from big companies including Walt Disney, McDonald's and CoreWeave. Data on the U.S. jobs market will also be watched closely, culminating in April nonfarm payroll numbers Friday.

With the Iran cease-fire still seemingly intact, oil prices retreated today, giving the market some room to run. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 1%, while the The S&P 500 gained 0.8%. While there has been no real uptick in traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the fact that the cease-fire remains in effect was enough to temper oil prices on Tuesday.

Futures rose. President Trump "paused" his Hormuz opening effort. AI plays AMD, Astera Labs, Lumentum, Arista were earnings movers late.

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After losing Fox to Disney, fighting his father in court, and resigning from News Corp over editorial content, James Murdoch is reportedly assembling the anti-Murdoch media empire to keep proving he's actually “a serious person”

Earnings season comes to the House of Mouse.

Investors are watching Disney (NYSE:DIS) ahead of fiscal Q2 2026 results due before the bell tomorrow, May 6. Shares are barely holding $100 at $100.69, down 10.95% YTD. This is new CEO Josh D’Amaro’s first real test. D’Amaro Inherits a Crowded To-Do List Last quarter, Disney beat with adjusted EPS of $1.63 on revenue of ... Can Disney Keep Treading Above $100 After Earnings Tomorrow?

Why Walt Disney (DIS) Is Back in Focus Walt Disney (DIS) is drawing fresh attention after recent share price moves, with the stock around $101.31 and mixed performance over the past year, month and past 3 months prompting closer investor review. See our latest analysis for Walt Disney. Recent trading has been choppy, with a 4.9% 1 month share price return but a weaker year to date share price return of 9.4% and a 5 year total shareholder return of 43.7%. This suggests fading long term...

Media investor James Murdoch is in advanced talks to buy Vox Media’s New York Magazine and podcast division, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal, which is through Murdoch’s Lupa Systems investment company, isn’t yet final, and could still fall apart, they said. Murdoch, the younger son of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, founded Lupa in 2019 after stepping down as chief executive of 21st Century Fox when substantial parts of the company were sold to Walt Disney The following year, he resigned from the board of News Corp, citing disagreements over editorial content.

Stocks were back near their highest levels on record after Wall Street turned its attention away from Iran and back to earnings season. The Dow rose 305 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 was up 0.7%. The Nasdaq was up 0.

Job openings barely budged in March as the hiring rate reached its highest level in nearly two years, Labor Department data released Tuesday showed. But layoffs also crept higher.

With prices climbing to visit Disneyland and Disney World, the cost may be some people’s financial security.

Paramount Skydance reported first-quarter results after Monday’s close, its first report since winning the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery.

Disney faces a mixed Q2 outlook as streaming gains are offset by sports costs and park expenses ahead of earnings, with margins under pressure.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq retreated from record highs as oil prices jumped amid signs that the Midd

Disney is set to report earnings Wednesday for the first time under new CEO Josh D'Amaro, with traders expecting a big move in the entertainment giant's stock after the results.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) was among the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar on Mad Money as he discussed the upcoming earnings. Cramer expects a good number from the company, as he remarked: On Wednesday, Disney reports. Alright, and I think it’s a microcosm of the higher-end travel markets… The consumer’s holding strong, and the […]

US benchmark equity indexes were lower intraday and oil prices jumped as fighting in the Iran war fl

Paramount Skydance is scheduled to report first-quarter results after Monday’s close, its first report since winning the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery.

S&P 500 companies' quarterly earnings and revenue growth accelerated compared with figures from a we

DIS heads into fiscal Q2 earnings with improving streaming profitability, but higher sports costs and Experiences expenses may pressure margins.

The CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE:VIX) is up 2.2% today to hover just above 17, snapping back from Friday’s close as renewed Middle East tensions and crude price spikes reintroduce risk premium into options markets. The bounce comes one trading session after the S&P 500 set a fresh all-time high of 7,230, capping the index’s best ... Market Greed Is Back: Oil and the Hormuz Strait Didn’t Get the Memo.

In April 2026, former 3-D animator Eric Ryder filed an amended US copyright lawsuit against James Cameron, Lightstorm Entertainment, and several Walt Disney subsidiaries, alleging extensive unauthorized use of his KRZ story across the entire Avatar franchise and seeking more than US$1.00 billion in damages plus injunctive relief. Separately, WK Kellogg Co announced the return of cereal-box toys through a tie-up with The Walt Disney Studios for Toy Story 5, underscoring how Disney’s...

The benchmark US stock measures were mostly pointing lower before the opening bell Monday as investo