Twitter, AmEx Under the Microscope
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🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Twitter shares rise on activist demands. Some members of the American Express sales team get an unflattering profile in The Wall Street Journal. Jason Moser analyzes those stories, plus we dig into the Fool Mailbag to discuss the relative merits of taking out a loan to invest in the stock market. For a FREE copy of our Investing Starter Kit, go to www.fool.com/StarterKit and we’ll email it to you.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 2nd. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to Market Fullery. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill with me in studio. |
| 0:06.6 | It's belligerent market timer Jason Meiser. |
| 0:10.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:11.0 | That's a very, very happy to be right before we start recording you check the market |
| 0:17.4 | and you were audibly displeased that the market was up today because you were hoping to do a little more bargain hunting. |
| 0:22.8 | Well, maybe. |
| 0:24.0 | Not even really personally for myself. |
| 0:25.9 | I just feel like we've got this market that's all over the place. |
| 0:29.5 | Can't really make up its mind. |
| 0:30.5 | I feel like, you know, I was thinking about this earlier today. I mean, we are at a point where I think people are still freaking out because of the coronavirus stuff. And I mean, understandably so, but I mean, I feel like, you know, we need to get to a place where we're okay with |
| 0:43.4 | understanding this exists and how we're going to live in the world and as people |
| 0:47.1 | going forward managing in a world where this coronavirus COVID-19 exists |
| 0:51.9 | and maybe once we get there, that's when the markets start to calm |
| 0:56.3 | down a little bit. And given today's buying that's going on, I don't, that's not a calm market right that's still not a sensible |
| 1:05.2 | move I just kind of want to see a little bit more rationality well we're |
| 1:11.1 | going to talk about this a little bit more because we're going to we got a |
| 1:15.1 | great email question about buying opportunities in the market and how to fund |
| 1:19.2 | them but we're going to start with two different companies that are in the spotlight for two very |
| 1:24.8 | different reasons, and we'll start with Twitter because shares of Twitter are up about 7% |
| 1:30.2 | this morning, because Elliot Management, which is a fund company that has somewhere to the tune |
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