well the guests include walmart ceo doug mcmillan and ceo of hsbc. stay tuned for that, you won't want to miss it. meanwhile geo political tensions and global economic woes are still the biggest headaches for the ceos. that's the headline for the latest survey. the annual report reveals just 27% of business leaders are confident that global economic growth will improve. well, steve spoke first to the chairman and asked him why business confidence was down in the u.s. in particular. >> it's a combination of factors. it's the global economy number one. we all know how integrated the economy really is. not looking good is the way i would put it but the second issue that's top of mind for ceos is the geo political environment. if you go back several years agatha issue was never even mentioned before and today it's a number one concern or the number two concern expressed by ceos today whether it's the middle east, other parts of the world. a lot of uncertainty causing concern. >> that's really interesting. why would geo politics hurt the psyche of an amer

the announcement comes three months after its ceo doug mcmillan told investors the world's largest retailerd review its store fleet amid increasing competition including rival amazon.com. >>> today at the vatican pope francis met with eric schmidt in a rare tech industry meeting. he's the executive chairman of alphabet. the act reason for the meeting was not revealed. pope francis has admitted to not having a computer but the 79-year-old is clearly not naive when it comes to the power of technology. in fact, he once said the internet is a "gift from god." >> ♪ >> in health check today at 5:00 vitamins and minerals a new study suggests vegetables may even protect from a severe vision problem. glaucoma is an issue that affects more than 2 million americans over the age of 40. harvard researchers tracked rates of this disease and found that those who ate more leafy green vegetables had a significantly lower risk of the most common type of glaucoma. it's thought that the nutrients found in these foods help blood travel to the eye and fight off the disease. >> students at strasburg friends schoo

format express concept was a big part of one of the pillars of their turnaround strategy from doug mcmillan. it's just not working? >> small format is definitely one of the pillars. e-commerce is another pillar, and, of course, the core super center business is another pillar. i don't know that it's not working. it's want working at that size. it's not working at the 10,000, 15,000 square foot size. i think it's working fine when you get up to 40,000, 45,000 square feet. those are the neighborhood market stores which they're closing some of those stores, but they're still planning to open a large number of neighborhood market stores in 2016. that concept is working. i just really small stores just are not for wal-mart. >> patrick, perhaps the big story here and what's notable about wal-mart is the resilience of this stock and this company at 2016. it's the only dow component that's actually positive for 2016 by about a percent. now, the cavat is it was the worst performing dow component of 2015. how do you read into the recent relative strength that we've been seeing? is it just overdone la

doug mcmillan saying it's more important now fthan ever for th company to evaluate its portfolio. walmart says beginning february 1st it does intend to still open between 135 and 155 u.s. stores and 200 more stores internationally. so growth is still on the outlook separately. the nrf is out with their holiday sales results, up 3% year over year. that is lower than the 3.7% estimate and the lowest number since 2013 when sales increased 2.7%. we know that government retail sales number is part of the reason we're seeing such pressure on the market this morning. back to you. >> thank you. walmart shares, we'll see how they open. they've been a bright spot in a dark market, jim. mcmillan is doing stuff. >> right. obviously anything that is put out today will have negative spin. the fact is that this is the kind of change we wanted to see. if eddie lampert had done this at sears a long time ago perhaps the forecast would have been better. you have to close the stores that don't work. mcmillan continues to take tough action. appreciate what he's doing. taking tough action. that's welco