Worst Box Office This Century
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Memorial Day weekend kicks off the summer movie season, but two financial flops led to the worst box office since 1999. Jason Moser and Taylor Muckerman analyze the damage, as well as Canadian National Railway’s last-minute efforts to head off a conductor strike, Zillow’s challenges with the “zestimate” and more.
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| 0:17.0 | It's Tuesday, May 30th, welcome to market foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from |
| 0:23.7 | Stock Advisor Canada, Taylor Munckerman, and for a million dollar portfolio |
| 0:27.3 | Jason Moser. Happy Tuesday, Jenz. Feeling refreshed. Are you? A little bit. |
| 0:32.2 | Nice. Yeah. a little bit. |
| 0:33.0 | Nice. |
| 0:34.0 | Nice long weekend. |
| 0:35.0 | Three days, yeah, not too bad. |
| 0:36.0 | Three days? |
| 0:37.0 | You say that one. |
| 0:38.0 | A little bit more than two. |
| 0:39.0 | Not quite for. |
| 0:40.0 | Not to brag, but my long weekend had three days. |
| 0:45.0 | We've got some housing news, we've got some entertainment news, but we're going to start up north. |
| 0:50.0 | Canadian National Railway, which is Canada's biggest railroad, averted a work stoppage at the last minute. |
| 0:57.0 | They were up against a deadline with the Conductors Union. |
| 1:02.0 | That's a union. You don't want to mess with you to run the railroad. |
| 1:05.0 | No, there's about 3,000 of them that they were dealing with. So they struck a deal and I mean this is |
| 1:19.9 | I don't know the terms of the deal, but this just seems like one of those, okay, well played because if you've got one job and your one job is running a railroad, then guess what? |
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