Visa Goes Shopping
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🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We survived Christmas! Jason Moser analyzes two deals from the world of banking and finance. Ameris Bancorp merges with Fidelity Southern in a move to strengthen its position in the southeastern United States. Shares of British payment company Earthcorp soar 280% after Visa comes knocking with a check for $250 million. Plus, we discuss the recent volatility and share why investors need to be prepared for more of the same.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 27th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Fuller. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio. |
| 0:07.0 | We both survived Christmas. |
| 0:09.0 | Jason Moser. |
| 0:10.0 | I should say all three of us survived Christmas |
| 0:12.0 | because Dan Boyd I ran behind the glass also |
| 0:13.8 | survive. Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm alive and kicking. It's been bananas, hasn't it? |
| 0:21.1 | Yeah. We're gonna we're gonna talk about there is actually some business news out there. There's an |
| 0:26.1 | acquisition we're going to talk about. Actually two acquisitions we're going to talk |
| 0:28.8 | about but let we should start with just what's been happening with the market Christmas Eve and then on the 26th and it's |
| 0:41.1 | It's just been crazy even for us, I think. |
| 0:44.4 | I mean, I don't know about you, but I sort of got this sense when we were chatting before |
| 0:48.0 | we started taping that we're in the studio, we've been watching the market. This is our job. Yeah. But I think even for you and me we were looking what was happening on Christmas Eve going holy cow |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, yeah, I mean that was you know, it's really weird. |
| 1:03.4 | Like, part of me, I've said this before, I walked out of the financial crisis stretch of time there, |
| 1:10.1 | you know, 2008, 2009, the Hank Paulson years were really all it took was one 30 minute long |
| 1:18.8 | speech from him live on the news to send the markets one way or the other five, six, |
| 1:24.4 | seven hundred points and we became very used to those types of moves. |
| 1:28.1 | And so these are definitely a lot easier to stomach but you still step back and you're wondering like what in the world is going on |
| 1:35.9 | And I think the headlines would have you believe that a lot of this is just based on interest rate policy and I think it was something to the |
| 1:43.4 | extent that the Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that you know they're they're |
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