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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 Pro Jeff Fisher

for Motley Fool Income Investor James Early

and for Million Dollar Portfolio Ron Gross Gentlemen.

Good to see you as always.

Good to see you, Chris.

We have got earnings from Apple, Netflix, 3M, and more.

We will look at Taco Bell's foray into the breakfast market.

And as always, we've got a few stocks on our radar,

but we begin with the big macro.

On Friday, the government reported the economy grew

at an annual rate of 2.8% in the fourth quarter.

Ron Gross, that is the fastest pace in more than a year and a half,

but it was below expectations.

That is true. Chris, I'm just happy to see it up.

Positive territory is good.

The expectations game is a difficult one to play.

Companies were rebuilding inventories.

That was really why this number looked pretty robust,

although, as you said, lower the expectations.

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