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It's Wednesday, December 18th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me in studio for the last time in 2019. It's Bill Barker. Thanks

for being here. Be people happy to hear that. No question, no question. There are absolutely a few of the dozens who are like, oh,

It was a long year of him.

All right, we are at least we can cross something off the list.

Let's just get through this one and then we're safe for the rest of this year.

Go back to adults and decent guests.

Yes, go ahead.

We've got a look back on 2019. We've got another strong quarter from General Mills

and yes I am surprised to be saying that out loud but we're going to start with

FedEx because shares of FedEx are down 9% after a second quarter that did not live up to expectations.

And I got a couple of questions for you about FedEx, but let's just start with the quarter itself.

What did you think of the quarter and what stood out to you?

Well, I'm going to quote somebody from Wall Street, the Deutsche Bank analyst, the right up there starts with FedEx reported results

that we can only characterize as breathtakingly bad.

That's a little mean. That's a little that's a little mean. That's a headline. That's a little hurtful. That's a headline. Yeah. They were. Do you think they were breathtakingly bad? Yes. I mean, I, well, I'm just following on somebody else's verbiage now, but I have nothing to counteract

that with and I think FedEx itself the the CFO okay not to be outdone the CFO on the conference

call described their quarter as horrific.

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