A Bonus for Investors?
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🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines announce plans to give employees a $1,000 bonus due to the new tax law. What does the news mean for investors? Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger tackle that question and weigh in on some surprising retail numbers and a potential Amazon acquisition.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 3rd. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Matt Greer. |
| 0:05.6 | Joining me in studio, we have Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser from a million dollar |
| 0:10.0 | portfolio. |
| 0:11.2 | Guys, happy new year and all that good stuff. |
| 0:14.0 | Happy New year. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm working through a bit of a cold, so you know, I think we are. |
| 0:18.0 | A little husky, a little rasty. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the congested episode. Post holiday blues. Well as part of this |
| 0:25.7 | episode we're going to talk some Amazon later in the show and a real surprising |
| 0:30.1 | prediction that someone made about who Amazon might buy next. |
| 0:34.5 | So just let that just kind of marinate for a while. |
| 0:38.0 | And let's go ahead and start with more news about the new tax law and companies paying bonuses. |
| 0:43.4 | Matt this time news that American Airlines and Southwest |
| 0:47.3 | both announcing plans to give employees a $1,000 bonus |
| 0:50.8 | due to the new tax law that came out on Tuesday that announcement. |
| 0:54.6 | Now Matt there's been a lot of speculation about how companies might use their tax |
| 0:59.6 | savings. We're starting to get some evidence based on these bonuses. |
| 1:03.0 | Southwest also saying that they're going to exercise an option to buy 40 jets from Boeing. |
| 1:08.0 | What do you make of it all? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, you know, this comes on the heels of, I think, news from Wells Fargo doing something similar a few other companies |
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