It's Wednesday, April 13th, and this is Market Fullery.

I'm Chris Helen joining me in studio today from Motley Full Stock Advisor, Andy Cross,

from Hidden Gems, Charlie Travers, and from Million million dollar portfolio Ron Gross.

Guys, good to see you.

Hey, do you do Chris?

Hi Chris.

We will look at the New York Stock Exchange makeover and some restaurant stocks, but we

begin with earnings season.

Alcoa kicked things off after the market closed Monday

with first quarter sales that were below expectations.

Shares of Alcoa have been sliding since then Ron,

not a very positive start to earnings season.

Not a good start. It'll be interesting to see if it's a foreboding of things to come.

I think a few things will be consistent. It'll be a theme. Higher energy prices will be a

theme and earnings this quarter. Higher raw material prices I think will be a

theme. The fact that they miss top-lined sales estimates sales were good.

They just weren't as good as analysts were predicting.

So it's hard to play that game.

Maybe analysts were just being too optimistic.

I think overall sales will probably be

fine this quarter but we definitely will be seeing higher costs.

Why is Alcoa this why did they get the honor of kicking off earning

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