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Yen firms after North Korea says considering plan to strike Guam

Yen firms after North Korea says considering plan to strike Guam

The yen firmed slightly against the dollar early on Wednesday after North Korea said it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. The strike plan would be put into practice at any moment once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision, a spokesman for the Korean People's Army (KPA) said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency. The dollar weakened slightly against the yen, which is often sought in times of geopolitical tension.


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Walt Disney Co (DIS) Lays a Q3 Egg, Gives Netflix the Boot

Disney's average analyst rating going into Tuesday night's fiscal third-quarter earnings report was “overweight,” with most expecting a solid beat on the expected $1.53 per share in earnings, on $14.6 billion in revenue. Disney brought in $14.24 billion in revenue, filtering down to an adjusted $1.58 per share of DIS stock, so a top-line miss but a bottom-line beat. Disney announced that it will start ESPN subscription streaming services through an existing app next year, and it will pull its movies from Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) starting in 2019 so it can stream them directly through a Disney-branded service.


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