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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

It's the Motley Full Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week.

Andy Cross and Jason Moser. Good to see you guys.

Hey, Chris. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street.

We will talk real estate investing with our man Matt Argusinger.

And as always, we've got a couple of stocks on our radar.

But we begin with a potential acquisition and an unlikely partnership.

Shares of Walmart rose 6% this week and hit a new all-time high on Friday.

After the retail giant confirmed it is teaming up with Microsoft in a bid for TikTok,

the wildly popular Chinese social media app.

TikTok is close to selling its operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In a deal expected to be in the range of 20 to 30 billion dollars.

Andy, this is moving pretty quickly. So it's quite possible by the time people are listening to this.

The deal is already done. But when I first saw this news, it didn't make any sense to me why Walmart would get involved here.

Yeah, I think that probably was a little bit of a shock to many people.

But the more I thought about it, it kind of makes a little sense, Chris.

So just think about what Doug McMillan and the CEO at Walmart has been doing in their e-commerce business.

Trying to have so much success even before the COVID-19 lockdowns.

And having that success partnering with, for example, the likes of Shopify they announced earlier on.

Walmart has a very large e-commerce presence. When the larger sites out there, their e-commerce business is going gangbusters right now.

They generate a lot of profits and cash as does Microsoft.

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