4 Beach Reads for Investors

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Heading into Memorial Day weekend, investors got some sunshine as the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all rose for the first time in over a month. (0:30) Emily Flippen and Maria Gallagher discuss:
- Why they're watching inflation and increased talk of a recession
- Costco posting stronger results than Walmart and Target
- Baidu and Alibaba rising in China
- Ulta Beauty's record sales in Q1
- Snowflake trading below its IPO price
- Farfetch fighting on the front line of so many tough macro trends
- The latest from Workday, Nvidia, and Williams-Sonoma

(19:00) Asit Sharma talks with Georgetown University business professor and author Christine Porath about how Traeger's CEO changed the company's culture and other takeaways from her book, Mastering Community.

(31:00) Maria and Emily respond to a listener's question about beach reads for investors with four recommendations (Money, The Fish that Ate The Whale, Red Notice, and The Coffeehouse Investor), discuss Unilever's new drone delivery ice cream business, and shares two stocks on their radar: 1Stdibs.com and Doximity.

Stocks discussed: COST, BIDU, BABA, ULTA, SNOW, WDAY, NVDA, WSM, FTCH, COOK, UL, DIBS, DOCS

Host: Chris Hill
Guests: Emily Flippen, Maria Gallagher, Asit Sharma, Christine Porath
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineer: Dan Boyd

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0:00.0	For the first time in a long time, the lights were green on Wall Street.
0:09.0	Monthly full of money starts now.
0:10.6	Everybody needs money.
0:30.0	That's why they call it money.
0:39.1	It's a monthly full money radio show.
0:43.4	I'm Chris Helen.
0:44.4	I'm joined by a senior analyst, Emily Flippin and Maria Gallagher.
0:48.4	Good to see you both.
0:49.4	Nice to see you too.
0:50.4	Good to be here, Chris.
0:51.4	We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street.
0:53.6	Author Christine Porath is our guest this week and as always, we've got a couple of stocks
0:57.8	on our radar.
0:58.8	But we begin with what appears to be a break in the pain for investors.
1:03.8	We're recording this in the middle of the trading day on Friday.
1:06.5	So I do not want to jinx us.
1:08.0	But at the moment, it looks like the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ are all going to finish in
1:14.3	positive territory for the week.
1:16.7	This breaks the streak of seven to eight weeks of falling indices.
1:20.6	So Emily, let me start with you.
1:23.0	As we get ready to head into summer, there are a growing number of narratives in the
1:28.0	investing world, the housing market going down, the latest inflation data looking more
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