MarketFoolery 04.10.2014
MarketFoolery
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🗓️ 10 April 2014
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
eBay settles its fight with Carl Icahn, but Sotheby’s fight rages on. Plus we analyze the latest from Bed Bath & Beyond and Pier 1 Imports, and dip into the Fool Mailbag.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, April 10th, welcoming Marker Fuller. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Ellen joining me in the studio today from pool.com, David Hanson, |
| 0:08.0 | and from Motley Pool Funds, Tim Hanson. |
| 0:10.0 | Happy Thursday, Jen. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey. Yo. First day of the master, you excited? |
| 0:15.0 | What am I saying? |
| 0:16.0 | How excited are? |
| 0:17.0 | I'll be more excited on Sunday. |
| 0:21.0 | I can't get, I can't get so amp for Thursday. And yet there are people in this, I don't get so am for Thursday and yet there are people in this I don't know about where you sit |
| 0:26.2 | David but just around the corner from this studio the TV is already on for the master so |
| 0:31.6 | Motley Full analyst hard at work I would say that the demographic |
| 0:35.0 | overlaps with masters watching and stock picking tends to pretty strong yeah |
| 0:39.2 | all right well it is earning season we'll get into a couple of retailers reporting earnings. We will dip into the full mailbag, but let's start with the biggest hedge fund fight of 2014 so far, which ends not with a bang but a whimper. |
| 0:53.0 | eBay announced it has reached a settlement with billionaire investor Carl ICON. |
| 0:57.0 | ICON is putting an end to his demand that |
| 1:01.0 | eBay spin off PayPal, He is withdrawn his bid for two seats on the board |
| 1:06.3 | and I guess they came to an agreement icon and the rest of the executives at eBay around |
| 1:11.9 | David Dorman, who is the former CEO of AT&T, he's going to be a new director |
| 1:16.3 | on the board. |
| 1:18.3 | How are you measuring the big, what leads you to call this the biggest hedge fund fight? How are you measuring the size of this kerfuffle? |
| 1:25.0 | Uh, by media attention and the fact that it's barely mid-April. |
| 1:29.0 | See, because I would, I would totally give the award to the Dan Lobe Sotheby's fight, which is way more vindictive and |
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