NEW YORK 2O15

摘要

McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson was in for a tough 2015, we said. On Jan. 28, McDonald's announced Thompson's exit. It was "unlikely" in our view that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would stick with a proposed 2020 deadline for curtailing coal use. The final rule, released in August 2015, sets goals beginning in 2022. We predicted, "China will add as much as 15 gigawatts of solar capacity." The nation is projected to reach or exceed that level by the end of the year. We said the European Central Bank would launch a quantitative easing program in 2015. The ECB began a $1.2 trillion program in March.