Decision easterbrook, of course, took over as ceo in march of 2015 before todays move, the stock was up 96 under his leadership since he took over under that tenure, the company sold off many of its company own stores to franchisees and previeded over the launch of alldaybreak fast and mcdonalds named usa president the new ceo of the company but a lot to talk about there. Joining us to have that conversation right now about leadership change at mcdonalds, jeff simonfeld and cnbc contributor. This was a huge surprise, jeff clearly made a mistake but it was a consensual relationship and we now had a handful of these situations how do you read it well, we do see a trend here that of these roughly 90 ceos who left office last year is 40 of them was for misconduct we havent seen numbers that high 40 for misconduct and most of that misconduct was had to do with improper relationships at work but you make an important distinction, this was consens l consensual we say Harry Stonecipher at boei
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
The omega Family Office. Nice to see you we just welcomed a conversation on stage. You just heard the Vice President who is on stage now describe the economy as booming, the stock market as near record high the fed cut Interest Rates yesterday. All makes a lot of sense. The administration wants even more what do you how do you make sense of it . Look, japan has had negative Interest Rates for 3 1 2 years what has it done nothing. Europe has negative Interest Rates. Their economy is doing very poorly the Vice President cited a bunch of factors, in of which on my list, Consumer Confidence is up, retail sales Strong Economy growing at trend, corporate profits are decent Corporate America if they were pessimistic, they wouldnt be buying back all the stock theyre buying rates are already low. I pity the poor guy or girl thats worked their entire lifetime when they go to their Financial Planner and ask for advice about retirement. How can they afford to retire . Theres no income. Good luck b
Watching from asia. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. You are just getting that decision from gorgeous norges, this is an interesting rate on how to set Interest Rates. A hawkish stance because of weakness in the national currency. But given the rest of the world is much more dovish and weaker President Trump putting pressure on the fed to cut, it is interesting if you are one of the lonely banks out there that wants to hike. Overall, european stocks are unchanged. , which gave sold much fear and anxiousness on the markets, currently stabilizing at 2. 01. Will have extra checks throughout the day and more on the inverted yield curve. Coming up, axis of conversation with Philipp Hildebrand, the blackrock vice chair. And exclusive conversation with Philipp Hildebrand, the blackrock vice chair. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Warren buffett has upped his wager in amazon. Hathaways stake in the ecommerce giant rose 11 in the Second Quarter. It is now value
Patriot Missile System from radiant. But as a we have from raytheon. Wonder how much trouble i will be in if i keep using the pound. Equity markets being patient ahead of the federal reserve. All the major averages unchanged. Flat forll it, mostly the day as we await the 2 00 p. M. Decision. It is all about the bond market. Take a look at the threemonth 10 year, 20 Straight Days of inversion. But because we have a list of yields on the long and, instead of 20 basis points, we are now only about 12 basis points on the threemonth 10 year. You had trump treating to mario draghi about not weakening the to mario draghi about not weakening the euro. Guy we will wait to see what f the central bank low signal, will it be a willingness to cut rates, maybe not today, maybe the next few days . Mas,ing us is charles du chief economist at ts lombard. What do things are chance is the fed comes out in signals that the market is right, we need to lower significantly and get on board with this idea. A