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LinkedIn's Missed Connection

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Business, Investing

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🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

LinkedIn plummets on weak first quarter guidance. Alphabet surpasses Apple in the race to a trillion dollar market cap. GoPro reports some not so sporty earnings. And Conoco Phillips cuts its dividend. Our analysts discuss those stories and share some stocks on their radar. Plus, ESPN analyst Andrew Brandt talks about the business of football.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:07.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

0:19.0

It's the Motley Full Money radio show. I'm Ron Gross joined by Simon Erickson, James

0:23.9

Derley and Jason Moser, gentlemen. Good to see you.

0:26.9

Hey, oh, good to see you, too, Ron.

0:28.9

Chris and Steve are in San Diego at an investing conference for members of our Motley Full

0:33.3

One service. Join by a lot of other fools, including Jeff Fisher, Matt Argusinger and Morgan

0:38.9

Howell. Chris will be back next week with all the scoop.

0:42.1

On today's show, an honor of the Super Bowl. We'll talk about the business of football

0:45.3

with ESPN's Andrew Brant and we'll talk about some not so super quarterly reports from

0:50.5

LinkedIn and GoPro. But we begin with the big macro. The US economy added 151,000 jobs

0:57.6

in January, first and unexpected gain of 190,000. But the unemployment rate, James, did fall

1:03.5

to 4.9%. So how bad am I supposed to miss this? Is this something we should be concerned

1:08.5

about? Yes, and no, no one. Yes. I mean, it's so good. It's bad, right? We got that

1:14.0

run. We've had China problems. We've had oil problems. We've had stock market has been

1:18.2

just hell lately. I mean, January didn't have any IPO. It's just awful, right? But unemployment,

1:24.1

maybe it wasn't quite as good as people were expecting, but it's still at an eight-year

1:28.0

low. I don't employment run for college graduates like yourself is at 2.5%. And that's like

1:34.2

the best, like ever, or at least in many decades, as far as I know. So even wages of ordinary

1:39.8

workers rose. Manufacturing was great. Construction was great. But from the investment perspective,

1:44.9

what this really means is that the, and this is why it could be bad. The odds of a sooner

1:50.4

Fed rate hike just went up. The Fed deliberated, and they're really, really nervous about the

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