Financials: Splits, Shorts, and Refinances: What Investors Need to Know
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are about to split their stocks, and both have been rocketing higher since making their announcements. Is a split really a meaningless numbers game, or does it add actual value for investors? Also, reports are showing that short-selling is at a 15-year low, and host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP discuss what it means for the stock market and investors in general. Finally, the pair discusses an unpopular cost increase set to hit mortgage refinancers, and talk about why Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT) and Bill.com (NASDAQ: BILL) are on their radar this week.
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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-Cyr. 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 24th. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host Jason Moser on this week's financial show. |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to talk a little bit more about stock splits. |
| 0:34.4 | Refinancing is cheap, but it sounds like it's going to get a little bit more expensive. |
| 0:39.4 | Short selling in US stocks has hit the lowest level since records began. |
| 0:46.0 | And as always, we've got a couple of stocks for it to keep your eyes on this week. |
| 0:50.0 | But first and foremost, I am joined this week as always by CFP and that's certified financial |
| 0:57.2 | podcaster Matt Frankel. He's certified financial plan or two right Matt,. But, hey, what's going on? |
| 1:03.5 | How are you? |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, pretty good. |
| 1:05.5 | It looks like I got better weather than you |
| 1:07.4 | if I look behind me, but I can almost see the rain |
| 1:10.9 | coming through your house. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah, you know, this just started and I mean it's nice it's cooling things down but man it did kind of come out of nowhere so let's hope it clears up. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, thankfully we're inside so we've you know, you know, you know, |
| 1:23.3 | always got that. |
| 1:25.3 | Uh, Matt, I wanted to start this week off, uh, this show, I show off this week talking |
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