Market Foolery: 08.31.2011

MarketFoolery

The Motley Fool

Money, Business, Motley, Business News, Stocks, News, Investing, Market, Fool

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. The Nook saves Barnes & Noble’s latest quarter. And Finland names its price for bailing out Greece.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 31st, and this is Market Fullery.
0:05.0	I'm Chris Helen joining me in studio today for Motley Fool's stock advisor Jason Moser,
0:08.8	the Motley Fool Global Games Tim Hanson, and from Motley Fool Inside Value, Joe Meger.
0:13.5	Guys, it's the end of August, we've survived what,
0:16.4	market volatility, a hurricane, an earthquake,
0:19.6	a fire in our building.
0:21.0	It's been a big month.
0:21.7	Happy end of August.
0:24.6	We've got big news from AT&T and we've got news from Barnes and Noble, but we will start
0:30.4	just briefly.
0:31.6	I want to go to Tim Hanson for a quick update we closed yesterday's
0:34.8	podcast by talking about the situation in Greece Finland essentially saying we
0:41.0	would like some collateral not essentially saying they were saying we want
0:44.2	collateral for our participation in the euro bailout we have a development in this story yeah
0:48.6	so apparently Finland demand that they would they would like Greece's gold reserve to be put up as collateral,
0:54.8	which is probably a fair request.
0:58.4	Greece counted and said, no, we can't do that because we don't have enough gold or if everybody asked for that as collateral,
1:05.2	you know, it just wouldn't be enough.
1:06.8	Exactly.
1:07.8	So how about this?
1:09.3	How about as collateral, you take some stock in our banks.
1:14.6	And how did that go over?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.