i am jack otter.e began with the three most reported things investor should think about right now. mcdonald's facing a menu of challenges after the ceo had an out. what's next for the giant. how is transforming into a software company and not focusing on the industrial internet of things. worn buffet workshare hathaway sitting on a record cash word and not the only one, he is an exclusive analysis on the "barron's roundtable", my colleagues. the market capped off another week of gains, that is five straight to a new record high. but investors know the market does not always know it goes straight up and one of the things and bad times is the quarterly payments known as dividends. so one of our writers took an exclusive look at some of the companies that we think are getting a little stingy. >> correct, there are 78 stocks in the s&p 500 that don't pay a dividend in many of them arguably should. you mentioned berkshire hathaway, that one is large because worn buffet is sitting on $128 billion of cash as

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i'm jack otter.gin with what we think are the three most important things investors should be thinking about right now. we're heading into a big week for retail earnings with implications for the housing market, upcoming holiday sales and more. kkr making a play for walgreens in what could be the largest leveraged buyout on record. are similar deals on the horizon? and aramco set to go public next month, what impact will it have on the oil market and stocks? my colleagues, ben leveson, laura ruin lin and jack howe. jack, let's briefly mention at the very end of the day on friday the market nosed above 28,000, the dow above 28,000 for the first time, so traders will head in with a mile as they rerue retail earnings, home depot versus lowe's, the battle that one team always seems to win. >> yeah, it's not much of a battle. home depot's always better. lowe's stock is usually cheap because home deusually does better -- depot usually does better. this is the era of no excuses in retail. if you own shares

i'm jack otter.gin with what we think are the three most important things investors should be thinking about right now. grubhub shares lost more than 40% of their value in one day. then pinterest plummeted. what's next? do you know enough about the stocks in your portfolio? we're now halfway through earnings season, and so far there's been little growth in profits. can the market rally be sustained in and in a barron's exclusive, the sec is now investigating why teachers across the country are being sold high cost retirement products, a story we first reported back in may. on the barron's round table tonight, ben, lauren and jack. jack, i'm going to start with you. the market took grubhub to wood shed this week. >> absolutely pounded, as you say. the quarterly results weren't great, the guidance was worse. there was a letter from management where, to their credit, they were pretty frank about some of the troubles to company. the chief executive said we believe online dines are becoming more promiscuo

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to barron's editor at large, jack otter. that these big ideas are being disputed. she took on barack obama for that. but that they're not really being considered for the hundred million americans who don't vote. >> gosh. that's a tough one. i think that there are so many americans who do vote, who are fully engaged in this process, who are awfully wary of change that dramatic, that it's kind of irrelevant. i really don't think there's an idea out there that is so great that you would pull a hundred million or even a significant portion of those non-voters in. neil: disenfranchised voters. she's a variation of what progressive democrats are talking about, the disenfranchised who you can galvanize to the polls. >> i get that, but my thinking is they are so cynical about our government that even if you said that, they frankly wouldn't believe it would end up working for them, so you wouldn't get them to the polls. that's what i think. i'm not saying this is the way to go, but if i were a progressive pushing that agenda i would

i am jack otter. things investor should think about right now. mcdonald's facing a menu of challenges after the ceo had an out. what's next for the giant. how is transforming into a software company and not focusing on the industrial internet of things. worn buffet workshare hathaway sitting on a record cash word and not the only one, he is an exclusive analysis on the "barron's roundtable", my colleagues. the market capped off another week of gains, that is five straight to a new record high. but investors know the market does not always know it goes straight up and one of the things and bad times is the quarterly payments known as dividends. so one of our writers took an exclusive look at some of the companies that we think are getting a little stingy. >> correct, there are 78 stocks in the s&p 500 that don't pay a dividend in many of them arguably should. you mentioned berkshire hathaway, that one is large because worn buffet is sitting on $128 billion of cash as of his latest report. and he has of

i'm jack otter.gs investors should be thinking about right now. we're heading into a big week for retail earnings with implications for the housing market, upcoming holiday sales and more. kkr making a play for walgreens in what could be the largest leveraged buyout on record. are similar deals on the horizon? and aramco set to go public next month, what impact will it have on the oil market and stocks? my colleagues, ben leveson, laura ruin lin and jack howe. jack, let's briefly mention at the very end of the day on friday the market nosed above 28,000, the dow above 28,000 for the first time, so traders will head in with a mile as they rerue retail earnings, home depot versus lowe's, the battle that one team always seems to win. >> yeah, it's not much of a battle. home depot's always better. lowe's stock is usually cheap because home deusually does better -- depot usually does better. this is the era of no excuses in retail. if you own shares of a store chain and they're not doing well, it's not th

i'm jack otter.re the three most important things investors should be thinking about right now. grubhub shares lost more than 40% of their value in one day. then pinterest plummeted. what's next? do you know enough about the stocks in your portfolio? we're now halfway through earnings season, and so far there's been little growth in profits. can the market rally be sustained in and in a barron's exclusive, the sec is now investigating why teachers across the country are being sold high cost retirement products, a story we first reported back in may. on the barron's round table tonight, ben, lauren and jack. jack, i'm going to start with you. the market took grubhub to wood shed this week. >> absolutely pounded, as you say. the quarterly results weren't great, the guidance was worse. there was a letter from management where, to their credit, they were pretty frank about some of the troubles to company. the chief executive said we believe online dines are becoming more promiscuous. you know, for the re

joining us right now "barrons" roundtable host jack otter wall street at large stost. >> intoing to seeand deval patrick able to do something not happening enough in whole debate right now they can hold two ideas in head at once patrick isn't going after obtain capital saying good thing running for enact party nominee obviously, has other ideas cuban didn't go you know one hundred percent against it he said there is still improvements to be made in capitalism to solve problems we have to stake that. >> when domestic violenceal said capitalism has things to answer for what does capitalism have to answer for. >> i think debate framed as con sest between capitalism socialism it is no con sest right. maria: no. >> if anybody thinks that we have a perfect capitalistism they need head examined lots on show in a couple weeks a really brilliant economist from new york university written a new book, saying that is what going on in america today is not capitalism as it should really be done, certainly not capitalism in united states in 1950s, let's say not competitive capitalism, too many compani