MarketFoolery: 10.01.2013

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🗓️ 1 October 2013

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Consumer goods analyst Bill Barker discusses how investors should consider consumer goods staples separately from discretionary consumer goods companies, and why acquisitions can provide insight into a CEOs strengths or weaknesses.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, October 1st.
0:03.6	Welcome to Market Fullery.
0:04.7	I'm Chris L. joining me in studio today
0:06.3	from Motley Full Funds, Bill Barker.
0:08.4	Thanks for being here, my friend.
0:09.8	Thank you, Chris.
0:11.0	It's great to be back.
0:13.0	Many Strategy Week continues.
0:16.0	At this moment, I am in Toronto.
0:18.0	Hopefully the U.S. government has not shut down because we're obviously taking this before October 1st.
0:23.2	Strategy Mini Week or Mini Strategy Week?
0:25.8	Strategy Mini Week.
0:26.8	That's it.
0:27.8	Because I was going to go with like a Maxi strategy here.
0:30.7	No small strategies. Maybe small strategies.
0:33.0	Maybe small tactics.
0:35.0	The strategy we're going to talk about, consumer goods.
0:38.0	Yesterday with Tony Arstit was investing in technology, but you focus on the consumer goods industry and I suppose the first
0:45.8	thing that investors need to know is that when thinking about when looking at
0:50.0	the consumer goods industry they're really two basic parts. You got your
0:53.9	staples, your staples and your discretionary. That's true, that's true. And for
0:59.6	those out there that are wondering which is which,ables are the kinds of things you got to buy all the time,
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