Financials: Visa and Mastercard Earnings, Square's Next Business, and Mall Bankruptcies
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this week's installment of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP dive into the latest results from Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA), both of which saw earnings decline sharply despite strong payment volume. Plus, Square (NYSE: SQ) is reportedly trying to make a move into the tax preparation business, and two mall REITs just filed for bankruptcy as the pandemic continues. And finally, hear why Matt is keeping a close eye on Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) this week while Moser is watching Bill.com (NASDAQ: BILL)
Stocks: V, MA, SQ, BRK.A, BILL
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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 Seidful. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.0 | Wildcar! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.2 | It's Monday November 2nd. I'm your host Jason Moser on this week's financial show. |
| 0:30.8 | We've got a couple of big earnings reports to dive into. |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to talk a little bit more about some headwinds maybe that are forming in the |
| 0:39.5 | reet space. It looks like Square may be making another acquisition here soon. We'll talk a little bit about that. |
| 0:46.0 | Of course, we'll have one to watch for you for the coming week. A couple of stock ideas from me in and Matt and speaking of Matt |
| 0:54.5 | Matt Frankel I've got you back in the house here took a week off last week a |
| 0:59.3 | much deserved break but certified financial planner Matt Frankel. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:03.3 | Hey, it's good to be back. |
| 1:04.4 | It's always good to take a little break |
| 1:06.0 | and you know stretch the legs and stuff. |
| 1:07.4 | I went up to the mountains with the family. |
| 1:10.3 | I took my two and four year old on a big hike up a mountain which was really interesting. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh wow. |
| 1:16.0 | But we had fun. |
| 1:18.0 | It was the highest point in the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| 1:20.0 | You can |
| 1:25.0 | can hike vertically almost and my two-year-old's a climber so he did great. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh that's terrific. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah at that age you never know they just they get tired so quickly it's just |
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