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The Walt Disney Co. will stop reporting quarterly subscriber numbers and ARPU for its streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, as it seeks to put more focus on the profitability of its streaming efforts. And the company will sunset its standalone Hulu app next year, with plans to fully integrate Hulu and Disney+ in one app experience. The company revealed …

Disney announced that it will no longer report on subscriber numbers for its streaming services in its quarterly financial reports, following in the footsteps of Netflix. The decision comes after a quarter in which it reported 2.6 million new Disney Plus and Hulu subscribers, bringing it to 183 million in total. The decision was announced in quarterly earnings commentary from …

Perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is once again in hot water. The service, which is designed to automatically capture screenshots of your Windows desktop on a Copilot+ PC, was supposedly patched to disable it from capturing screenshots of sensitive information like credit card numbers, passwords, and more, but a new report …

The Numbers Look Bad for Oil Prices. Traders Don’t Seem to Believe Them.  Barron’s Oil steadies as OPEC+ output hikes counter Russia disruption concerns  Reuters OPEC Plus Will Increase Oil Output  The New York Times Oil Drops in Choppy Trade on Russia Uncertainty, OPEC+ Increase  Yahoo Finance OPEC+ makes another large oil output hike in market share push  CNN Source link

Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring ID numbers to cast mail-in ballots  Politico Source link

President Trump’s advisers are defending his decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after Friday’s jobs report showed the economy gaining just 73,000 jobs in July. In a social media post on Friday, Trump baselessly claimed the numbers “were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” On Sunday, National Economic Council Director …

Natalie Sherman & Jake Horton BBC Verify BBC President Donald Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (LBS) after the department revised down recent job numbers by more than 250,000. He says the figures were “rigged” to make his administration “look bad”. Although the latest revisions were bigger than usual, it is normal for the …

Wall Street was on track to open with gains on Monday following Friday’s sell-off that was triggered by fears of a slowing economy after the government released some grim data on U.S. job growth. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both rose 0.5% before the bell. Nasdaq futures climbed 0.7%. After a jam-packed calendar of …

In light of a disappointing jobs report released on Friday, Jim Cramer has urged the Federal Reserve to implement a cut in interest rates. What Happened: The nonfarm payroll growth for July was a mere 73,000, falling significantly short of the anticipated 100,000. Additionally, the figures for May and June were revised downwards by a total of 258,000. The unemployment rate for …

Trump Live Updates: White House Defends Firing BLS Commissioner Over Weak Job Numbers  The New York Times White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump’s firing of labor statistics head  NBC News Larry Summers says Trump’s accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’  ABC News Trump’s Former Jobs Data Chief Decries Firing of Successor  Bloomberg ‘The revisions are hard evidence’: White House struggles to …