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
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the European Union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. Despite a slowing economy continues with its Infrastructure Spending ahead of the fifa world cup talked to Qatar Airways c. E. O. About airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. Plus cant count out build on the success of homegrown giants aljazeera and b. In sport by attracting more Media Companies to set up shop here. In a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the European Union its somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this weeks show isnt about briggs it this is about africas decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next European Union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born 24. 00 nations came together
Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation Dagen Mcdowell, chief Market Strategist art hogan and president ial candidate arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Good morning. A lot to talk about this morning especially on day 2 of Federal Reserve meeting, Delta Airlines coming. Ed is here, chairman and ceo of the black stone group, Steve Schwartzman talking about his book. Oklahoma senator James Lankford also joining us this morning, dont miss a moment of it, we have a big 3 hours, top story this hour is oil, once again dropping this morning on news that saudi arabia will restore normal output and production levels by the end of the month as secretary mike pompeo meets with saudi arabia king prince salman to twin attacks on saudi oil facilities, iran is denying any involvement in saturdays strike with president Hassan Rouhani blaming u. S. For disruption in the region. Its not exactly going well for them. I think this was their attempt to break out and sort of find way to put press
Now we are at 29. 80ish we have been going side ways most of the year in 1997, the year started at an alltime high and went up. It is true. You think about where we were Christmas Eve and we had taken a huge plunge. We got it back interesting on the performance. Similar to the u. S. But china lagged significantly where we are in the trade war. Who is hurting more or less. Down about 4. 7 china has closed today but something to keep your eye on treasury yields are up part of that because of a weak japanese option not exactly for risk on reasons. I wonder if the new quarter means youve loosened up a little bit looking even at absolute levels, a lot of that has been weak. At the end of the quarter, it hasnt money too significant well be a bit of a head wind. Still talking about growth from 6 yesterdays day was fractionally better the eurozone manufacturing and final print was a tiny bit of expectations still the worst to october 2012, the Global Growth out look does not look particularly
Time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us in singapore is enda caringlynd hong kong, from hong kong, karen leigh from westminster, anna edwards. Trade talks with the u. S. Are expected to resume in early october. Enda curran has more. Da obviously a signal here that talks are going to go ahead. Weve been waiting for some kind of breakthrough, and now weve had a statement from the Commerce Ministry that there was a telephone call that included china vice premier liue h china vice permit or china vice premier liu he. Theres a little less committal on the chinese side, but there is still a healthy dose of skepticism required. A lot of economists say that these two sides have a long way to go before they reach any kind of meaningful deal. Duember, more tariffs are in october and december. We had some commentary from the global times today outlining that both sides are in a deadlock, and it is in both of their interests