Motley Fool Money: 08.21.2009

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.3 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Yahoo! team up against a tech rival. Starbucks announces that it's raising and lowering prices. And the Fed Chief expresses some optimism about the near term. In this installment of Motley Fool Money, we discuss those stories, share three stock ideas, and play a spirited game of "Which S&P 500 stocks have outperformed Google since Google went public five years ago?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Motley Full Money, I'm Chris Held, I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst
0:08.8	Seth Jason, Charlie Travers, and Shannon Timmering.
0:11.8	Guys, happy Friday.
0:12.8	Happy Friday, you guys.
0:13.8	Glad to be here.
0:14.8	On today's show, Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo, team up against Google, Starbucks raises
0:19.7	and lowers prices, and Palm says no to Steve Jobs.
0:24.0	All that plus we'll share three stock ideas.
0:27.0	What we begin with some good news on the big macro front, the markets were up today
0:31.3	after better than expected housing news, Ben Bernanke said earlier today that, quote,
0:36.4	prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good.
0:40.4	Close quote, Shannon.
0:41.4	Wow, exciting.
0:42.4	Shannon, do you agree with our esteemed Fed chief?
0:45.5	Not so much, actually.
0:46.5	You have to factor in, of course, that this guy is one of the chief architects of the so-called
0:50.0	recovery, and that he is up for being renewed as the Fed chairman, so maybe he has a bit
0:53.9	of a vested interest in him.
0:54.9	He wants that reappointment.
0:55.9	Everything's great.
0:56.9	I think so.
0:57.9	You know, so are we closer to the end of the recession than it's beginning, sure.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.