MarketFoolery: 10.20.2011
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🗓️ 20 October 2011
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer shares his thoughts on Google. eBay and Nokia report earnings. And markets respond to the events in Libya.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, October 20th, and this is Market Fullery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Inside Value Joe |
| 0:08.8 | Maker and for a million dollar portfolio, Ron Gross. |
| 0:11.8 | Guys, good to see. |
| 0:13.0 | Chris, we have earnings from Nokia and eBay and comments from the ever |
| 0:17.8 | quotable Steve bomber from Microsoft and we have a couple of listener emails we will |
| 0:21.8 | get to. The big story today is the death of Libyan dictator |
| 0:25.8 | Momar Gaddafi. Obviously we will focus on the business piece of this. |
| 0:30.8 | Libya exports around 85% of its oil to Europe, and estimates are that it could be more than a year |
| 0:37.0 | before the production levels get back to where they were before the Civil War. |
| 0:41.0 | So Ron, I'll just start with you. In terms of what this |
| 0:45.0 | means for investors, what do you make of this? In the near term, it's hard to say because |
| 0:49.5 | there's a lot of moving pieces here and nothing has stabilized yet. We need to move towards |
| 0:53.4 | stabilization, a new government has to be put in place. A lot of this production has |
| 0:58.0 | kind of been shut down or curtailed so we need companies to come back in at |
| 1:02.0 | some point. |
| 1:03.1 | That will increase supply. |
| 1:04.5 | That should lower prices in the longer term, |
| 1:07.3 | a year plus down the road. |
| 1:09.6 | Joe, what do you think? |
| 1:10.5 | Short term good news, it should help lower oil prices. Oil prices respond |
| 1:14.9 | poorly to scary indecision and when things are certain they go down and that's good |
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