Welcome to Motley Cool Money, I'm Chris Hone, I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst

Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zimmerman.

Guys, happy Friday, happy Friday Chris.

A lot of companies reporting earnings this week, including Amazon, Apple, Chipotle, eBay,

Ford, McDonald's, and a little tech startup named Microsoft.

We'll get to those stories, offer up three stock ideas, and talk about the relative merits

of buying shoes online.

But we start with Mr. Market.

This week saw the Dow cross 9,000 for the first time since January, and news that existing

home sales were up for the third straight month.

So Shannon, a lot of talk to things are turning around.

You buy them?

No, to me, this is like a short-term fling that has worked out much better than anyone

expected, and so investors have stuck around longer than they should have.

Some things aren't meant to last, and this rally is one of them.

For all the good economic data that came out this week, and not as bad as expected, economic

data that's come out over the last several weeks, bad news remains.

Some sales may be up, but home values are still more of them.

For example, personal income, still in the doldrums, unemployment still set to hit double

digits very soon, and in this, the most consumption-based of all economies, consumers are saving,

not spending.

That adds up to a rally that has probably overshot the relief mark, and is kind of in

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