A have you good morning and warm welcome to cnbc. Im wilf spice girls good morning. Exactly. Appropriate. Its throw back thursday. No theme. Just throwing it back with classics. Cant do much better than spice up your life. Lets see what the market is doing. Not very spicy. Called higher, albeit, fractionally. The s p and the nasdaq also expecting slight gains. Yesterday western essentially flat, the nasdaq fractionally higher. Apple also outperformed closing out 0. 6 . Get to its products announcement just shortly. If we look at the tenyear note as well, youll see yields just slipped again. Not much. Were now at 1. 534. Certainly the tune of the last week since fridays disappointing jobs report has been easing of expectation of when well see rate hike. Seen the yield slip steadily down to 1. 534. You have no idea how impressed i am about your spice girls repertoire. I didnt sing it. You knew what it was. Of course. I knew its meant to be gold power, but teenage boy power too. European
View of the ball, but is it worth the 400 price tag . The taste test with the spread from applebys. Its officially a wrap on 2015. Ending down 178 points. Dow and s p seeing their worse year since 2008. Nasdaq finished positive by 5. 5 . Take a look at stocks that stood out this year. The top two dow performers, they were nike and mcdonald. The top two s p 100 performers, ahmae amazon and netflix, trades for the year. Do you bid them along . Happy new year. Timmy was all year long belling mcdonalds. Theyve proven theyve gotten through their growing pains or difficulties they were having and figured it out good. For them. I think you stay with netflix as well. It has not traded well for the last 1 1 2 months, two months or so. Netflix faltered. I still think its too hard to replicate it. When earnings come around, you are going to be happy you were involved in the stock. How can you say its too tough to replicate netflix . There is a lot of competition. Anyone whos got distribution like
Futures are up 10 , consumer stap ems flattening out. And two of chinas richest men lost billions in just a few hours. Well tell you who they are and how they did it. But we start with a very rough trip for mcdonalds. Protesters have hit the street outside of the companys Shareholder Meeting. Theyre protesting low wages. Kate rodgers has been monitoring that meeting. The protests and the stock, which as we mentioned is trading down by about 0. 8 of a percent today. Kate. Well today was ceo Steve Easterbrooks first Shareholder Meeting in oakbrook illinois where he acknowledged mcdonalds challenges and touted his turnarounds. The biggest takeaway was a clear win for shareholders. One of the measures passed was a proxy access by law. Those who have held 3 of mcdonalds stock for three years to propose director candidates on proxy materials. This was a shareholder proposal that mcdonalds did not want to pass but it passed with 61 of shares voted. This is a way to make the board more account
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