Visits to its theme parks are expected to fall in step with a decline in U.S. consumer confidence, offsetting advertising sales growth at Disney's ESPN and ABC television networks.
The news comes as some Wall Street companies, such as Goldman Sachs, are expected to hand out record or near-record bonuses in 2009--even though the government had to step in last fall to rescue the U.S. financial industry.
Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - people ), are expected to hand out record or near-record bonuses in 2009--even though the government had to step in last fall to rescue the U.S. financial industry.
But the member of Congress who by far took the most money from Abramoff is Texas Republican Tom DeLay, who was House majority leader until he was forced to step aside last fall after getting indicted in a campaign finance lawsuit.
At the beginning of the month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency took the first official step in a plan circulating since the fall: allowing investors to buy pools of foreclosed homes backed by the government and turn them into rental units.
Either way, once gold began to fall, the selling cascaded with few investors willing to step in and buy, traders said.
The concept of social enterprise, so attractive in sites like Davos, tends to fall apart when we actually step outside the Western world.
Even such an apparently modest step as training African officials in enforcing business rules could fall foul of this.
The difference lies in the large number of individuals that fall by the wayside at every step of the cloning process.
After announcing an unexpected fall in first-half net profit, Swiss Re said that John Coomber, its chief executive, would step down at the end of the year.
When a stock is in a free fall on its own terms, there is very little traders and investors can do but step out of the way and let the carnage continue.
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