Segments From This Episode

• Numbers will be higher, but how much higher?

  by David Brancaccio

  There’s a big potential mover of markets on Friday: the government’s numbers on hiring, plus the unemployment rate. Let’s get our weekly consultation with Diane Swonk, chief economist at the audit tax and advisory firm KPMG.

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• The great Disney-activist investor showdown

  Sometimes annual corporate shareholder meetings are mundane. Not so this year at Disney, where there was a highly publicized battle for a say in how the company is run. That battle ended Wednesday, with Disney’s current leadership prevailing in a fight with a high-profile investor.

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• What Yellen's trip entails

  by Jennifer Pak

  Treasury secretary Janet Yellen arrives in China on Thursday as she tries to stabilize fraught economic relations. She’s due to meet with Chinese officials and U.S. business executives in Beijing and the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou.

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• Delays in Boeing deliveries bring voluntary unpaid time off for United’s pilots

  by Samantha Fields

  

  United and Southwest have also paused hiring because of the delivery delays. Higher airfares could be on the way.

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