A Marriage Made In…
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🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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British American Tobacco cuts jobs. The FDA cracks down on flavored e-cigarettes. Groupon is reportedly looking into acquiring Yelp. Bill Mann and MFAM Funds portfolio manager Bill Barker analyze those stories, give a shout-out to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and reminisce about the late T. Boone Pickens. (To get 50% off our Stock Advisor service, go to http://StockIdeas.Fool.com.)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 12th. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:05.6 | Joining me once again in studio is Bill Mann. |
| 0:08.2 | Also joining from M-Fam Funds, Bill Barker. |
| 0:11.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:12.0 | You got the bills together. Thanks for having me. You got the bills together. |
| 0:13.0 | Thanks for having it. |
| 0:14.0 | It's been a long time. |
| 0:15.0 | It has been a while. |
| 0:16.0 | It has been. |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, since we've been here, I mean, it was earlier this morning where we were here. |
| 0:21.0 | Waiting for Chris to join us for coffee. I was a little |
| 0:26.8 | late this morning. So we've got some potential merger acquisition news, potential. |
| 0:34.9 | We're going to pour one out for T-Boon Pickens and give a shout out to our neighbors at the US PTO. |
| 0:41.8 | But we're going to start in the world of tobacco and tobacco related products. |
| 0:47.0 | British American tobacco, the parent company of cigarette brands like Lucky Strike, Kent and Dunhill. |
| 0:52.0 | Shares of BAT are up a bit this morning after announcing |
| 0:55.9 | that it is cutting thousands of jobs. |
| 0:58.4 | And that probably would be the lead story in tobacco and tobacco-related products products were not for the fact that yesterday the |
| 1:06.6 | U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a plan to ban flavored e-cigarette products |
| 1:12.0 | and flavored e-cigarette cigarette products and this seems like if |
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