Surging Unemployment, Skyrocketing Stocks

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The unemployment rate surges to nearly 15%. Uber and Lyft shares rise on earnings. MercadoLibre, PayPal, and Twilio hit all-time highs. And Disney announces plans to reopen Shanghai Disneyland. Motley Fool analysts Andy Cross, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser discuss those stories and weigh in on Activision Blizzard, Berkshire Hathaway, Beyond Meat, Electronic Arts, Etsy, Pinterest, Roku, Shake Shack, Square, and Wayfair. Plus, our analysts share three stocks on their radar: Costco, Coupa Software, and Smartsheet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	From Fool Global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.
0:38.4	It's the Motley Fool Money radio show.
0:39.7	I'm Chris Hill joining me this week.
0:41.2	Andy Cross and Ron Gross.
0:42.9	Good to see you as always, gentlemen.
0:44.5	How you doing, Chris?
0:45.4	Hey, Chris.
0:46.2	We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street.
0:48.0	We've got a few stocks on our radar.
0:49.9	And we have a lot of earnings to get to once again.
0:52.2	But we will start with the big macro.
0:54.6	On Friday morning, we got the jobs report for April.
0:57.6	The unemployment rate soared to 14.7%
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