It's Wednesday, May 25th, and this is Market Fullery.

I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Mann.

That's true.

From Income Investor James Early, and from Motley Full Options Jim Gillies.

Guys, good to see you.

Hi Chris.

We've got a new e-reader from Barnes and Noble,

earnings from Costco and news about an unexpected competitive advantage from Apple.

But before we begin, guys, we have to say a word about Mark Haynes, the long time anchor

at CNBC who died unexpectedly at the age of 65.

Obviously our condolences go out to his family, his friends, and his colleagues and certainly folks that we've worked with at

CNBC over the years.

Bell Man, I mean this is a guy we've been watching for 15, 20 years.

Yeah, I mean he was he was one of the first employees at CNBC when they merged with, I guess it was

FNN 25 years ago.

Yeah, so he's, he'd been at it a long time. And yeah, it was, you know, for me having having grown up

with, you know, with, with, with, with, with, with,

with C.N.C.

I mean, he really had been, you know, part of my morning for a long time.

And he was the guy on that show who I really appreciated the most because you didn't you felt like you're getting a little bit of context with him he was you know he was willing to he was willing to call people stupid basically and you just don't you you don't see that a lot in you know in financial

You know in financial television you know where you know people seem to be cheering for the home team and he you know he really wasn't and I mean he

was he was he was a he was a pleasure to watch and yeah I'm very you know I was shocked and

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