Amazon's Big Bet on the NFL

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Another rough week for the stock market coincides with Amazon's exclusive start to Thursday Night Football. (0:30) Emily Flippen and Ron Gross discuss: - FedEx shares having a historically bad day amid talk of a recession - Adobe spending $20 billion for a start-up software design firm - Optimism around Starbucks after an impressive (and detailed) investor day - Twilio laying off 11% of employees - Two business leaders and their legacies (19:45) John Ourand from the Sports Business Journal discusses Amazon's investments in NFL programming, Disney's thinking about ESPN, college football playoff expansion, and story lines for the MLB playoffs. (35:30) Ron and Emily share two stocks on their radar: Union Pacific and Costco. Stocks discussed on the show: FDX, ADBE, SBUX, TWLO, AMZN, DIS, AAPL, UNP, COST Host: Chris Hill Guests: Emily Flippen, Ron Gross, John Ourand Engineer: Dan BoydGenetically edited humans are already here. Gene editing has massive implications for treating chronic illnesses and even the food we eat. So what does this mean for your investments and, y'know, possibly humanity? Ricky Mulvey talks with Motley Fool Advisor Karl Thiel about: - How CRISPR works - Some of the possibilities for CRISPR, from sickle cell cures to drought-resistant crops - How investors can approach investing in gene therapies - Biotech metrics to watch. Companies mentioned: BLUE, CRSP, GILD, EDIT, VRTX, NTLA Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Karl Theil Engineers: Tim Sparks, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How bad is it for FedEx?
0:06.9	How much does Amazon have riding on Thursday night football?
0:10.4	And who gives away an entire company?
0:12.9	Motleyful Money starts now.
0:17.1	Everybody needs money.
0:28.1	That's why they call it money.
0:37.1	From full global headquarters, this is Motleyful Money.
0:40.4	It's the Motleyful Money Radio Show.
0:41.9	I'm Chris Hill, joining me in studio senior analyst Emily Flippin and Ron Gross.
0:46.2	Good to see you both.
0:47.2	How you doing, Chris?
0:48.2	We got the latest headlines from Wall Street.
0:50.2	We'll talk NFL prime time with John O'Ran from the sports business journal.
0:54.9	And as always, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar.
0:57.6	We begin with another rough week for the markets.
1:00.1	The Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all down again this week, punctuated by shares of FedEx falling
1:07.3	more than 20% on Friday.
1:10.3	First quarter profits in revenue for the Bellweather company were lower than expected.
1:14.5	Ron, we'll get to FedEx itself in a minute.
1:17.4	But this was another rough week where it was hard to find optimism anywhere.
1:24.6	If you could buy shares of pessimism, I feel like that is a stock.
1:27.5	That's fair.
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