Walt Disney FACING Box Office Competition and 3 Dow Movers to Note

Walt Disney Company’s (NYSE:DIS) $207 million record box office debut of “The Avengers”, could be beaten by Warner Bros’ (NYSE:TWX) “The Dark Knight Rises”, which might gross over $180 million domestically in its opening weekend, estimated from pre-release tracking. If estimates are understated the latter might exceed the record of “The Avengers”, says The Los Angeles Times, citing inside sources.

General Electric Company’s (NYSE:GE) proposed acquisition of MetLife’s (NYSE:MET) banking division was not voted on, when the FDIC met in its monthly board meeting on Tuesday, which implies that it could be another month before MetLife can divest the unit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) has awarded Quanta Computer an original design manufacturer order for 18 million notebooks to be shipped over the course of next year, says the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, according to Digitimes.

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) and other tech firms are more and more concentrating on chief marketing officers, as well as chief information officers, as the former add more responsibility to manage customer relationships across a number of fronts, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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