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It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill, joining me in studio this week for

Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, for Motley Fool Funds, Charlie Travers, and for

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We have got the latest from the energy industry, banking, retail, and more.

We'll check out what's happening at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But earning season officially began this week. So we're going to start with big tech.

Intel's fourth quarter profits came in higher than expected.

But guidance for Q1 was a little weak, Charlie, and the stock was flat on Friday.

You look at the quarter itself though. Look at rock solid.

Yeah, Intel really crushed it for the year.

Sales were up 6%, earnings per share up 22%. I think going into 2014, I didn't expect that in the company itself didn't expect it.

Brian Krizantich said on the call they thought that revenue and profits would be flat for the year.

And the reason they thought that, if we step back in time a little bit, wasn't all that long ago,

all the growth in computing came from mobile devices. Everyone was buying tablets.

That's what was hot. People were using phones a lot.

And those were really the substitutes for PCs. And there was a stretch.

I don't want to say it was like six or seven quarters where all the major PC manufacturers were reporting severe declines and desktop sales.

And so I think nobody was optimistic about Intel's 2014, including the company.

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