It's Tuesday, September 17th.

Welcome to Market Fullerg.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Pool Special Ops, Mike Olson.

And for Motley Full Inside Value and Motley Full Hidden Gems in Australia.

Joe Meager in the house.

Woe!

Wow, it's good to be back.

Welcome back, my friend.

How was the trip, by the way?

Long and boring.

I feel united.

Let me just say if you can fly Quantus instead, why Quantus?

What about the Alaska Airlines like the flight?

Other than the almost lost baggage it was relatively pleasant.

Okay, we're going to talk Pandora, we're going to talk

apparel retail, which is in the news this morning, but we're going to start with

big tech and that is Microsoft shares of

Mr. Softy up this morning after announcing a 40 billion dollar share buyback

program they're also going to increase their dividend 22%. I don't know Joe I look at how

Microsoft has spent billions of dollars over the last couple of months and I think well

this isn't the worst idea in the world. No I think this is much better than, I don't know, buying in Nokia or Skype, for example, hypothetically.

Yeah, I think it's good to them to be dishing out more in dividends and to Microsoft's credit among the big cap tech companies they have been the biggest

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