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Why We’re Watching Margins This Earnings Season

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Money, Business, Motley, Business News, Stocks, News, Investing, Market, Fool

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Facebook has unveiled a new device for the home called Portal. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes Facebook’s entry into the home assistant space. “Venom” had a record-breaking opening weekend at the box office. Plus, Bill shares why he’s watching margins this earnings season. (Tangents include the New York Yankees, Halloween candy, and the prospects for another “Apropos Of Nothing” episode.

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0:31.4

It's Monday, October 8th. Welcome to Market Foolry. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio for Motley for the asset management, Bill Barker.

0:33.8

Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.

0:34.6

I thought you would be up in New York celebrating the Yankees World Series victory.

0:40.0

You know, we only celebrate when there's a real world series in hand.

0:44.4

I mean which happens a lot as you know for Yankees fans.

0:48.3

Not this century.

0:49.3

Not, not.

0:50.3

But the way they played in game too, it's looking like, looking like they're going to get here.

0:54.4

Are we a sports podcast?

0:55.6

No, we're not.

0:56.2

We're business.

0:57.2

So we're going to get to the movie business, which had kind of a surprising weekend.

1:01.3

We're going to do an earnings preview. Let's start with Facebook.

1:07.0

Because Facebook, I don't know if you've noticed, but Facebook has been in the headlines in 2018 largely for security reasons or I should say lack of security reasons and I spent part of my weekend dealing with the latest email hack which is people saying hey you

1:26.0

may have been hacked you may have gotten an email from me saying I'm looking for a

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