Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host Vincent Shen and it is Tuesday, May 30th.

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend and if you haven't heard yesterday's special

behind the current episode of Industry Focus, check it out to learn more about the team and what it's like

in the studio.

But for today's discussion of potential mergers and acquisitions activity in the consumer and retail world, I've recruited senior fool.com contributor Assad Sharma to join the show.

Hey, asset, thanks for calling in. How was your weekend, man?

It was wonderful.

It's very relaxing, you know, long four days,

the highlight of which I beat my middle child 15 year old

in one-on on one basketball.

So chalk one up for father time.

Very nice.

I was talking to Austin before the show and you know we got reined out a few times.

I was up in New York. Do you guys have to deal with that at all in North

Carolina? Now we got a little bit of cloud cover here and there. It was just a gorgeous weekend.

So we escaped some serious rain. It was very pretty.

All right. I'm glad you had a good weekend and we're able to show your son that you still have what it takes on the court at least.

I still got it.

Thanks. So kicking off our discussion for today, we have the recent reports that

American Eagle Outfitters is considering a potential acquisition of its apparel rival, Abercrombie

and Fitch.

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