Motley Fool Money: 08.14.2009

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🗓️ 14 August 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Does optimism from the Fed spell better times ahead for investors? Will the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf drive big profits? What’s in store for retailers like Costco, Wal-mart, and Target? Will JetBlue’s pricing experiment help its stock takeoff? In this installment of Motley Fool Money, we tackle those questions, share three stock ideas, and debate the relative merits of Fiji bottled water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motley Full Money, I'm Chris Helm, I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst
0:08.6	Seth Jason, James Early and Shannon Zimmer and guys, good to see you.
0:13.2	Good to see you, Chris.
0:14.2	Seth, welcome back.
0:15.2	How's fatherhood treating you?
0:16.6	I'm a little sleepy.
0:17.6	Alright, we'll get you some caffeine.
0:19.4	We got a lot to get to this week including the latest with Apple, Google, Walmart and
0:23.9	JetBlue, a car showed on between the Chevy Volt and the unfortunately named Nissan
0:29.5	Leaf and as always we'll share three stock ideas.
0:33.4	But we begin with the big macro.
0:35.3	We're taping this on Thursday with news just out that retail sales in July fell.
0:39.9	It's the first drop in three months.
0:43.1	And on Wednesday the Fed issued a statement saying that, quote, economic activity is leveling
0:48.5	out.
0:49.5	The Fed also said it would slow down plans to buy back $300 billion in treasury bonds and
0:55.3	that it would keep short term interest rates near zero.
0:59.3	Always really exciting pros whenever the Fed issues a statement.
1:02.9	Alright, Shannon.
1:03.9	What does all this mean for investors?
1:05.7	Well, so what you basically have has been Bernacchi giving the economy if not a high five
1:09.9	than a high 2.5 and then a pattern of his own back basically because he was one of the
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