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
Start. How do you start six months, andrew, in terms of the markets and the economy and what weve heard from the fed. Its like a tolstoy novel. You could do a month and it would take a half hour to go over everything we have seen you throw in a. I. And his investments around the world and you remind yourself 30 years 30 plus every year. That is almost its an amazing thing probably will never been done again. I dont know how it was done once unless you made some deal with someone who knows these things to do that well is spooky. Its scary i guess it comes from being smart. Were okay. Hes one of the smartest when it comes to these issues that will be 25 minutes of stan hes going to be in your chair you got to give your chair to someone. I would warm it up for stan. Perfect lets check the markets which well be talking about at length today u. S. Futures indicated up about 78 points. Mixed on nasdaq which is off a little so much of it has to do with a lot of what we are talking about which
Nikkei flat. European equities, still positive. Nicely positive. Its better than yesterday. Germany, france, ftse, spain, all higher by more than 1 . Even more italy who has suffered so much lately. Price of crude oil up this hour across the board. 47. 97. Brent is reapproaching 50. 49. 34 with a gain of. 55. Danone is buying whitewave foods to expand the presence in the United States. Whitewave is the producer of silk almond milk, Earthbound Farm horizontal organic milk its a 24 premium to whitewaves Closing Price over the last 30 days. Tesla ramping up the word of wars with fortune. The electric car maker saying it did no wrong waiting to disclose a fatal accident with a car with self driving technology. This after fortune accomplished accomplish fd a story that was critical of tesla setting on the news for eight weeks. Criticizing the fact elon musk sold shares in the interim. A blog post late last night denying it knowingly withheld information from shareholders regarding that cras