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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Chris L. Joining me in studio this week from Motley Fool

Income Investor, James Early, and for million dollar portfolio,

Charlie Travers and Ron Gross, gentlemen, could see you as always.

Good to see you, Chris.

We've got a lot going on. We've got home improvement stocks on the rise.

We've got a couple of tech giants making headlines for very different reasons.

And a little bit of trouble in the magic kingdom.

Summer movie season officially kicks off this weekend.

So we've got Nell Minnow as our guide.

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

But we begin this week with the Fed chief on Wednesday.

Ben Bernanke went to Congress to testify before the joint economic committee.

And said the U.S. job market is still weak.

And it is too soon for the Fed to end the stimulus program.

Ron, I should say, we're taping a little earlier this week because of Memorial Day weekend.

So if the market goes crazy late in the week, everything we're about to say may be moot.

But what we saw on Wednesday, when he made those comments in the wake of Bernanke's comments,

the market was on the rise.

But then later in the day, we had the minutes from the latest Fed meeting come out

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