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🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Walmart falls 10% on 4th-quarter results, but were they really that bad? Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the latest results from the retail giant. Plus, we discuss Home Depot’s latest quarter, Albertson’s bid for Rite Aid, and Walt Disney’s huge weekend at the box office. (Tangents include President Chester A. Arthur, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and music options for the Winter Olympics.)

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February 20th welcome to market foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio

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from Motley Fool Asset Management Bill Barker. Thanks for being here. Thanks for

0:28.5

having me. How did you celebrate President's Day? Olympics.

0:33.0

Olympics?

0:34.0

Yeah, Mondo Olympics.

0:36.0

All day.

0:37.0

Did you think about any President in particular?

0:40.0

You know what, I'm going to take two minutes, I'm going two minutes I'm just going to ruminate on

0:43.8

Chester A Arthur just for a moment because I never do any other day no I did I think as

0:49.1

I mentioned I did go through my Twitter account and eliminate everybody that comments on politics.

0:55.0

They all had intelligent things to point to and say I just need a little break.

1:02.0

Need a little break. And if we were going to talk about the presidents that probably popped into my mind

1:07.3

yesterday, the usual one would be the current one.

1:10.3

The current one.

1:11.3

Unfortunately in that category.

1:13.7

And that's why we have the Olympics, thank goodness, which by the way, I don't know if our producer

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