Disney is likely to give a touch competition to Netflix, which has remained the sole leader in streaming business with 158 million subscribers since its launch in 2007.
Wall Street fell on Friday as negative headlines about Johnson & Johnson and Boeing, along with bleak economic data from China, soured investor risk appetite and offset generally positive corporate earnings.
Analysts at Citigroup said in September that gold could hit $2,000 an ounce in the next two years. The current high $1,921.17 an ounce during the 2011-12 rally.
The US and China are engaged in a year-long row that has slowly expanded beyond trade policy, suggesting even more damage to an already fragile global economy.
HKEX executives, who were going ahead with the plan to raise £8 billion to fund the LSE purchase, had met shareholders in London and New York last month to gain support but were rebuffed.
Yields on two-year US Treasury yields fell as weakening data on manufacturing and the jobs market suggested the trade war with China has damaged the US economy.