It's Monday, January 28th.

Welcome to Market Fullry.

I'm Chris L. joining me in studio today for Motley Full 1, Jason Moser and for Motley

Full Hidden Gems, Chief Investment Officer here at the Motley full, Andy Cross.

Happy Monday, guys.

Hi, Chris, happy Monday.

We're going to talk Barnes and Noble.

We're going to talk Men's Apparel retail, because we're fashionable guys.

And when I say we, I basically mean I basically mean Andy actually looks like you

know a grown up today. We're gonna start with one of the big Dow stocks and

that's Caterpillar fourth quarter earnings came in better than expected, shares

up about 2% this morning, but Jason, what's getting the headline today, the big headline,

is the fact that net income for the quarter fell by a half due to China and it's really

two things in China one is sort of slower growth and we'll talk about that in a minute

but it's this this right down they had to do of a deal that really just didn't work out the way they wanted it to.

Yeah, that's really concerning. I mean, it's interesting to see the market's reaction today with the stock being up.

This wasn't a surprise. I mean we had seen news

out on this for a while, but it was essentially it was a Chinese acquisition

that the worst part about this is that you the management of Caterpillar

gets up there and they say we really went through this

and did our due diligence before making this acquisition but I mean the fact of matter is that

what what they apparently have on their hands here is a multi-year intentional accounting fraud

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