MarketFoolery 10.08.2014

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🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Housel discusses the pros and cons of a strong dollar, the US exporting oil for the first time in nearly 40 years, and recent small cap woes.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 8th.
0:03.4	Welcome to the market foolery.
0:05.0	I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today,
0:07.0	the one and only Morgan Housall.
0:09.0	Thanks for being here.
0:09.7	How you doing?
0:10.7	I'm doing okay.
0:11.7	How are you doing? I'm all right. Hanging in there. I got coffee. As long as I got coffee, I'm doing okay. How are you doing? I'm all right.
0:13.0	I'm hanging in there. I got coffee.
0:14.0	As long as I got coffee, I'm good.
0:15.0	Life's good.
0:16.0	I'm good.
0:17.0	What else do you need?
0:18.0	Uh, I need earning season to kick off and fortunately it will after the market closes today when
0:24.6	Alcoa God bless Alcoa always first up no longer in the Dow Jones industrial
0:31.4	average but they still get the sort of honorary title of
0:35.6	first kid in line.
0:36.6	Yeah, first kid in line we get to kick off earning season.
0:39.7	So we'll do a little earning season preview, but let's start with something that we don't really
0:46.3	talk about all that much, and that is the dollar.
0:51.7	This is a, we focus on stocks. We don't focus on currencies and yet in preparation for today's podcast I learned of the existence of something called the US dollar index which simply tracks the currency
1:05.2	against other currencies in the world. Here's a little tidbit that in the third
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