Planes, Trains and Surgical Robots
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🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As IBM drags down the Dow Jones, we’re talking transportation! Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the latest quarters from United Continental and CSX. Plus, after a few years of treading water shares of Intuitive Surgical are on the rise (again) and Amazon teams up with Best Buy to sell smart TVs. (Tangents include the biggest vehicles we’ve driven and finding the remote control.)
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| 0:18.3 | Great. Let's start the show. It's Wednesday, April 18th. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Full Asset Management, Bill Barker. |
| 0:29.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:32.0 | Yesterday was the video edition of market foolery in terms of the companies that we talked about. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to start today with transportation. |
| 0:40.0 | Actually, we should probably start with IBM just because for anyone who looks at the Dow Jones |
| 0:46.4 | industrial average, today is one of those helpful reminders that it is made up of just 30 companies and if one company is having a particularly |
| 0:55.4 | bad day as is the case with IBM that can really affect the other 29 whatever |
| 1:01.9 | the other 20. |
| 1:03.4 | This is one of those days where if IBM was out |
| 1:06.5 | and it was just 29 stocks, |
| 1:07.8 | oh, the Dow average would be up nicely. |
| 1:10.7 | And instead, IBM's having its worst day since 2014. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, it's not only that it's one of 30 stocks, but it's a price-weighted index, and let's not go into all the details of that, |
| 1:22.0 | but the more expensive the price of the stock is, the |
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