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Should I Short My Own Company?

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🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Delta Airlines and Bank of America kick off earnings season. PC sales fall for the 6th quarter in a row. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss whether it’s wise to short your own company. For a free preview of our Motley Fool PRO service, just go to TryPro.Fool.com.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, April 14th.

0:04.0

Welcome to Market Foolery.

0:05.1

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Pro and Options, Jeff Fisher

0:09.2

and J.P. Bennett.

0:10.9

Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday.

0:13.0

I'll start today's episode the way we started yesterday's episode.

0:16.0

Everybody's taxes done?

0:18.0

Yep.

0:20.0

Not filed yet, but they are done.

0:22.0

All right, good.

0:22.8

We can move on because it's not earnings palusa per se,

0:27.7

but earnings season has begun.

0:29.1

We'll talk a little Bank of America.

0:31.6

We'll talk about what is going on with PC sales and just go ahead

0:36.7

and guess what's going on with PC sales and of course we'll dip into the

0:39.7

full mailback but let's start with Delta Airlines. First quarter profits came in higher than

0:44.4

expected. They're buying back stock. I feel like this is the type of quarter and this is the type of results in what we're

0:55.0

hearing from management Jeff that if we weren't talking about the airline industry, the

1:00.5

stock would be up more than 2% today. The airlines right now, Chris, are kind of like living the And for better or worse, they're spending the windfall in I think the better.

1:17.0

The better category, a lot of airlines, and they're only a small handful of major airline companies in the country now and the world

1:24.5

which is a good thing for the industry but the majors are buying new airplanes

1:28.4

scheduling that out years ahead of time they're increasing pay and a delta and American have moved to profit sharing

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