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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Chris Hill.

I'm joined by Motley Fool, Senior Analyst, Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmer.

Guys, good to see you. Good to see you, Chris.

Coming up, we'll dig into AIG, Abercrombie, Coca-Cola, Target, and Home Depot.

We'll talk motivation with bestselling author, Dan Pink.

Guys, it's not all about carrots and sticks, just in case you're wondering.

Carrots and sticks are out now.

Corporate library co-founder and movie mom, Nell Minow, will give us her predictions for the Academy Awards

and her pick for the greatest business movie of all time.

All that, plus, as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks that are on our radar.

But we begin with the big macro.

Guys, on Friday, the government reported the economy grew 5.9% in the final quarter of 2009.

That's the fastest pace in six years.

Two-thirds of that growth came from manufacturing.

Consumer spending, though, actually weaker than originally thought.

Seth, we also got news on Friday that new home sales fell to a record low.

So, put it all together for investors out there.

Put it all together. Well, it's a lot of stuff we already know.

This slight bump up in GDP to 5.9% annualized.

That's okay, but that's really just a tweak on something we already knew.

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