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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Chris Ellin, joining me in studio this week from Motley Fool

Inside Value, Joe Megger, from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early

and from Million Dollar Portfolio, Ron Gross, gentlemen.

Good to see you as always. How are you doing, Chris?

Well, we had a short week in the markets, but we've got earnings

from oil companies, internet companies, and companies that do other things.

Princess Leia is now a Disney princess.

We will get into that. Do not mock Princess Leia.

Never know you had it. I think we all had a little thing for Princess Leia back in the day.

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

But we begin with the big macro, and this week guys, the big macro is absolutely

Hurricane Sandy, which caused huge damage in the Northeast part of the United States.

Obviously, the recovery is ongoing, worth pointing out that this is a storm with a death toll.

And obviously, our hearts and our thoughts go out to the people in New York and New Jersey

who are dealing with the recovery.

Estimates now are that the damage could cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 billion.

Joe, I want to start with you because the stock market was closed on Monday and Tuesday.

First time in over 100 years that it was closed for that amount of time due to weather.

What did you make of the reaction when the markets reopened on Wednesday?

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