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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host Chris Hill and joining

me in studio this week for Motley Fool Hidden Gems, Seth Jason for Motley Fool Income

Investor James Early and for a million-dollar portfolio, Ron Gross.

Gentlemen, good to see you as always. Good to see you Chris.

We've got the latest on retail, hotels and Google's push back into China. We've got another

iconic business filing for bankruptcy and as always, we've got a few stocks on our radar,

but we will begin with the big macro. The price of natural gas has fallen 13% in the past

week. It is now at its lowest point in nearly two and a half years, James. What is going

on here? It is cheap, Chris. I think $2.77 per million BTU. Five years ago, it was over

16 bucks. That's the equivalent of your car gas going from like $3 per gallon to 51 cents

per gallon. It's that much of a pullback. A few things are going on. Natural gas is

a byproduct sometimes of producing other things like oil. Also, some of the leases that

these gas companies sign require them to drill regardless of the price. In other words,

they're not just stopping production. They normally would when the price of a commodity

goes low. The big question, though, to me is, what does this do for structural gas demand?

Does this mean we're going to use more gas-fired electric generating capacity, for instance?

What is the play here for investors? Assuming you're not dabbling in commodities. Is there

a stock play here? A couple of things. It's obviously good for the half of Americans who

use gas to heat their homes. Electricity rates could go down. Another thing, infrastructure

companies, pipelines that ship the gas, kinder Morgan, enterprise products, partners,

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