. >> shareholders at five hermes, including navistar have voted against a compensation plan. it signifies to boards they need to change the way they pay top brass. for "nightly business report," i'm mary thompson. >> one of the most popular and well attended meetings is berkshire hathaway, warren buffett's company. next saturday. >> you will be there. >> 40,000 people as well will be attending it, it's huge. all coming to hear what the oracle of omaha has to pay. >> happy shareholders, most of the time. >> have a great trip. >> coming up, four stocks at this week's market monitor says you should own right now. but, first, a look at how international markets fared today. >> we talked about it a lot on yesterday's program. congress working to reach a deal on airport travel delay because of sequester cuts. today the house followed suit to the senate's plan. giving a green light for the department of transportation to use unused funds for air traffic controllers furloughed. clear howuickly the furloughs workers will be back on the job full time. shares were mostly higher on the d

so far this season, five firms voting down the firm's pay plan including the one at navistar. >> maryu had chris on from iss, and i notice their advice -- advice can play an important role in a lot of these kinds of services -- a lot of these fights and of course, there is some debate about whether that should be the case and whether iss' analysis is one that should be listened to, but very interesting and certainly an important time of the year that they were headed into. >> it is. as he was mentioning again, and it's the rise of the activist shareholder. the concern about proxy advisers, too, like iss is the way they are con flicked in some way. nevertheless, their thoughts on how you should vote a proxy does carry great sway so people, shareholders, particularly institutional shareholders tend to listen to them. something i want to talk about with simon, he mentioned earlier after i mentioned my piece on say on pay. that's right, the shareholders may vote against a compensation plan and it's handed back to the board to decide whether or not they want to do anything on it and typica