Motley Fool Money: 05.15.2009
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🗓️ 15 May 2009
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Has Google gone to the dark side in its latest search for profits? After a $1.4 billion fine, are the chips down for Intel? Will TARP boost the bottom line for investors in insurance companies and community banks? And should investors buy eBay’s latest bid? We answer those questions, air a few beefs, and share a few stock ideas in the latest installment of Motley Fool Money.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Motley Fool Money, I'm Chris Helm, I'm joined by Motley Fool Senior analyst |
| 0:08.7 | James Early and Shen and Zimring. |
| 0:10.7 | Guys thanks for being here with me and not our colleague Seth Jason who is in Italy right |
| 0:15.5 | now on vacation. |
| 0:16.5 | Yeah we miss you Seth. |
| 0:18.5 | Coming up we'll take a look at Google's dark side and Ebay's free love, we'll look |
| 0:22.9 | at whether it's a good time to invest in insurance companies, share a few stock ideas |
| 0:27.0 | and air a few beefs. |
| 0:30.3 | But we begin with Mr. Market. |
| 0:32.4 | Last week's optimism gave way to this week's worst and expected retail numbers. |
| 0:37.6 | A reminder that investors may not want to pop the champagne just yet. |
| 0:43.0 | We also had news that Chrysler was shutting down almost 800 dealerships and the GM was |
| 0:47.5 | closing down 1100 of its dealerships. |
| 0:50.9 | Shannon what was the big story that caught your eye this week in terms of the market? |
| 0:55.2 | Well I actually think it is time to pop champagne, it seems rational that the market |
| 1:00.2 | responded at least today and on Wednesday in the way that it did around real deal economic |
| 1:05.1 | data. |
| 1:06.1 | So we've kind of gotten addicted to news that wasn't as bad as we expected and that's caused |
| 1:09.0 | the market to be on this rush of irrational exuberance. |
| 1:13.2 | So finally they got checked and the retail numbers came in worse than expected but if anybody |
| 1:18.0 | was paying attention they knew that this was going to happen eventually. |
| 1:21.0 | So income has been declining for a while. |
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