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Industry Focus

Financials: Insurance Earnings and Interest Rates, Oh My!

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Industry Focus: Financials host Jason Moser chats with Motley Fool analysts Dan Caplinger and Jason Hall about recent earnings reports from Berkshire Hathaway and Markel as well as what the current interest rate environment means for investors looking to maximize returns on cash!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

0:11.0

I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphill. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today

0:16.0

we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods.

0:19.1

Wild-C-Werc Wednesday. And we're talking energy. and today we're talking tech.

0:24.0

Let's dive in.

0:27.0

It's Monday, August 10th. I'm your host Jason Moser.

0:30.0

This week's financial show we're going to go into the latest earnings reports from

0:33.8

Berkshire Hathaway and Markel insurance.

0:36.3

We're going to talk about negative interest rates and investing.

0:39.8

We've also got a few tips for how investors can approach and deal with stressful times like these

0:44.6

we're witnessing now with a pandemic. But joining me this week I've got a full squad here

0:49.6

with Jason Hall and Dan Kapplinger. Guys, how is everything going?

0:54.3

I have to say, I've never been referred to

0:56.2

as part of a squad.

0:57.0

That's pretty exciting.

0:58.0

I'm pretty happy about that.

0:59.8

Fool's squad, full strength here.

1:01.7

Love it.

1:02.4

Yeah. Doing great here, Jameau, how are you? Oh, doing well, doing well, trying to beat the heat here in Virginia. I think that we, I've just noticed the past couple of days, I walk outside early in the morning and I can smell fall small

1:15.2

It just little small changes in the air, but it's coming and I'm kind of happy about that

1:20.4

It's still like 90 plus degrees up here. I'm ready to call it a summer. It's gonna be it's still like 90 plus degrees up here I'm ready to call it a summer

1:23.7

it's gonna be it's gonna be 90 all week here in Southern California so we're

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