Beth Kowitt, Columnist

Disney’s Iger Starts to Clean Up Some of His Own Messes

Reversing losses from streaming will be a huge challenge even as cost cuts and an end to a proxy fight give the newly returned CEO some breathing room.

The hard part is still to come.

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That didn’t take much.

After Walt Disney Co. delivered earnings Wednesday that beat expectations and announced a plan to cut $5.5 billion in costs, activist investor Nelson Peltz said this morning that he was ending his proxy fight against the media giant.