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Welcome to Motley Full Money. Thanks for being here.

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

Jason Moser from Motley Full, Hidden Jams, Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross,

and from Million Dollar Portfolio, Ron Gross. Good to see you guys.

That's a week, Chris. We've got the latest on consumer goods, energy, the tech industry, and more.

We've got retirement expert Robert Broke Camp, and as always, we'll share a few stock ideas to put on your watch list.

But we begin this week with the retail industry.

And guys, people who think retail is headed for a bad holiday quarter, got some more ammunition this week.

We got quarterly results from both Walmart and Coles that were disappointing. Same store sales, Andy for both of them were down.

And even Nordstrom, third quarter profit was down. There are just a lot of retail companies that are hurting.

Yeah, the bright spot was actually Macy's. Macy's saw same store sales up around 3% and earnings beat and earnings above growth of 20%.

So we are seeing a little bit of this high end is winning. Low end is really struggling.

I mean, Coles, Walmart, that side seems to be having a rough go of it as we've seen the economic recovery mostly on the high end.

So those companies like Macy's, Nordstrom is actually not so bad that they guided for 2.5% growth through the year.

Those are where you're going to see a lot of the e-commerce wins too. So the direct consumer e-commerce wins.

That all speaks to a higher type clientele willing to spend in this kind of market. And we're not seeing that the low end.

Ron, when you look at the retail industry writ large, what do you see?

Yeah. Well, same store sales as a project that I saw. I think I'm Morgan Stanley reporting really only about 1.6% for this season versus maybe 3.5%.

That's the holiday quarter. This is the money quarter.

Yes, the things are weak. But then you point out, listen, the stock market is going gangbusters. Home prices are strong.

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