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From Fool Global Headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Show. I'm Chris Hill,

and joining me in studio this week from Motley Fool Explorer Simon Erickson from Supernova,

David Cretzman, and from Total Income, Ron Gross. Good to see you.

Was always gentleman.

Hey, hey.

Despite all the headlines from Washington DC,

there actually was business news this week.

We're going to catch up with bestselling author Diana Henriquez,

and as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with Apple's worldwide developer conference.

Apple used its annual event to unveil the HomePod,

a smart speaker for your home that will be available later this year for the cool sum of just

$349, David Cretzman. This does not appear to be as initially some people thought,

a competitor to the Amazon Echo and the Google Home Assistant.

Even though it does have that functionality, it really seems like they're going after the music market.

Yeah, up to this point, Apple frames this as being that there hasn't been a speaker that's

wireless and smart, and that also sounds really good. Usually you have one or two of those in a

speaker, but not all three. I think they're more directly competing with Bose and Sonos,

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