Retail Rebounds and Ad Struggles
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🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Best Buy and Kohl’s post surprisingly strong 4th-quarter results, but the stocks have different reactions. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the retail landscape, including L Brands’ continuing battle with declining mall traffic. Plus, advertising giant WPP is having difficulty in an increasingly digital world. We discuss those stories as well as Bill Ackman exiting his short of Herbalife. (Tangents include the Academy Awards, the flavor blue, and our upcoming listener happy hour in Austin, Texas!)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 1st. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the market foolery. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today. |
| 0:06.0 | It's not Joe Meager. |
| 0:08.0 | I know I said that yesterday, and we'll get to that in a second, |
| 0:10.0 | but it's Bill Barker from Motley Full Asset Management. |
| 0:12.9 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:14.7 | It's a big disappointment to listen to the audience. |
| 0:18.0 | I don't know that it's a huge disappointment but I did sort of make something of like, |
| 0:22.3 | hey, it's Australia week really just |
| 0:24.8 | Wednesday and Thursday Scott Phillips yesterday Joe Meger and let's just chalk |
| 0:29.3 | it up to scheduling issues because that's actually what it was. |
| 0:33.0 | But here's the good news. |
| 0:34.0 | Joe is too busy. |
| 0:35.0 | Joe's a busy man. |
| 0:36.2 | But here's the good news, Joe Mager will be our guest on Motley Full Money this week. |
| 0:40.0 | So you will get your full compliment of Uncle Joe Meager in full hour? |
| 0:44.6 | Well no no we're not giving the full hour to Joe. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean I love Joe but we're not giving him the full hour. |
| 0:50.7 | No no no. |
| 0:51.7 | But you'll get your your fill of Joe |
| 0:54.6 | Meger on Motley Full Money this weekend but you know what let's get to some news we |
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