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How's it going out there?

It's Wednesday, August 31st and I'm Frank Curzier, hosted the S&A Investor, where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really moving these markets.

You know, it always amazes me when I see traders on C and b c in the morning session talk about

macro conditions and there's one trader I think he was on the New York Stock

Exchange a guy that I never saw before, and he said that the new Prime Minister of

Japan, which is the old finance minister, is a terrible choice.

This guy is horrible. And the trainer didn't even know the guy's name, the new

prime minister's name, but he was like, this is a bad decision that could weigh on the markets in the short term.

And it just reminds me of how on the markets in the short term.

And it just reminds me of how many people sometimes are on

CNBC that aren't qualified to talk about certain events.

Whether this guy is good or not, the fact they didn't know his name I just thought was amusing.

It's almost like me telling my wife about what towels she should buy at bed bath and beyond

when I know nothing about that subject.

Anyway, we do see this a lot where unqualified people give advice on stocks, markets all the time.

And that was my basis for buying research and motion or telling people to buy research and motion

in the mid 20s, 26, 27.

And there was just, you know, I saw a lot of people trashing research in motion on

on C.N. B.C.

They didn't really talk about the fundamentals.

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