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MarketFoolery: 11.15.2012

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🗓️ 15 November 2012

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Wal-mart and Target report earnings. Starbucks makes a big acquisition. And Berkshire Hathaway loads up on shares of Deere.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, November 15th.

0:03.8

Welcome to Market Fullery.

0:04.8

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

0:06.5

From Motley Fool 1, Jason Moser, and for Motley Full Inside Value, Uncle Joe

0:10.4

Maker.

0:11.4

Good to see you guys. Happy Thursday.

0:12.4

Hey, happy Thursday.

0:13.0

Uh, boy, we got a lot on our plate.

0:15.0

We've got Starbucks making yet another acquisition.

0:18.0

We've got some interesting information coming out of Omaha and Berkshire Hathaway in particular,

0:22.0

but we're going to start with a couple of big retailers

0:24.3

reporting earnings, Walmart and Target.

0:26.9

Walmart, third quarter profit, up 9%,

0:29.9

but Walmart lowered guidance for the fourth quarter and target third quarter

0:33.8

earnings were up 15% and fourth quarter earnings were forecast to be

0:38.1

pretty significantly higher than what analysts had in mind let's start with

0:42.2

Walmart first, Joe.

0:45.0

Shares down about 4% this morning, which tells me...

0:48.0

For Walmart is massive.

0:50.0

That's...

0:51.0

This is not the G-go growth stock you know of say

0:55.9

1990s tech so yeah for Walmart to be down 4% is a pretty significant amount

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