Welcome to Motley Pull Money, I'm Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Pull's Senior Analyst

James Early, Seth Jason and Shannon Zimmering.

Guys, thanks for being here.

Good to be with you, bro.

Coming up, we'll take a look at Amazon's latest Kindle, McDonald's latest sales and Marvel's

latest quarter.

We'll share a few stock ideas and air a few beefs.

But we begin with Mr. Market, the week ended with investors feeling optimistic after better

than expected jobs numbers and after finally getting the results of those bank stress tests.

Shannon, you sharing that optimism, don't you?

No, in a word to quote the late great Johnny Reiton who's still kicking, but it prefers

to be called John Liden for some reason.

You ever get the feeling you've been cheated, US taxpayers have been duped.

We really did have a need and an opportunity for an honest accounting of the health of these

companies that we've afford so much money into and that's the last thing we got.

Well, we got was a dog and pony show.

The answers were known in advance.

I think you made the point.

It's an only book final and leaked out one by one to test market reaction.

Exactly.

So trial balloons were floated and shot down or not as the case might have been.

And basically the banks were actually in a position to be able to negotiate with the

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