Betting on the Winter Olympics, Exploring Global FinTech

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Viewership on Peacock is not as high as Comcast would like, so they're doubling their investment in 2022. Maria Gallagher analyzes the streaming landscape and the role the Winter Olympics plays in Comcast's plans. She also discusses how McDonald's, one of the largest employers in the U.S., is dealing with rising costs and why Levi Strauss is optimistic about 2022. Plus, Emily Flippen and Asit Sharma take a closer look at Wise, a financial tech company aiming to make global currency transactions cheaper. Our free Investing Starter Kit includes 15 stocks and 5 ETFs. For a copy just go to http://fool.com/StarterKit Stocks: CMCSA, NFLX, DIS, MCD, LEVI, WISE, SQ, PYPL Host: Chris Hill Guests: Maria Gallagher, Emily Flippen, Asit Sharma Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some businesses are built to last.
0:07.3	Today on Motley Fool Money we've got a dominant communications company, a worldwide leader
0:11.9	in restaurants, and a consumer business that's been around since the 1850s.
0:17.6	All that and more coming up right now.
0:22.8	I'm Chris Hill and joining me from the financial capital of the United States of America.
0:27.4	Motley Fool Senior Analyst, Maria Gallagher.
0:29.4	Good to see you.
0:30.4	Nice to see you too.
0:32.0	We've also got Emily Flippin and Asset Sharma coming up later in the show to take a look
0:36.5	at the business of global money transfers.
0:39.8	We're going to start with streaming video because we talk a lot about Netflix and Disney
0:45.3	Plus.
0:46.3	We don't talk as much about peacock, but that was Front and Center in Comcast's Fourth Quarter
0:51.6	Report where profits were higher than expected.
0:55.2	But I don't think I'm wrong in saying that peacock really isn't going as well as they would
1:01.0	like it to.
1:02.0	They said it's not going to be as profitable as soon as they originally thought, but it
1:06.9	is clear that Comcast is pouring money into peacock.
1:10.6	They're investing in this.
1:11.6	Yeah, so there's so much to think about with Comcast.
1:14.4	So you had revenue in 2021 revenue was up about 12% and that income was up about 35%.
1:21.5	They generated a free cash flow of 17.1 billion.
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