Original Broadcast: Motley Fool Show
Meme stocks had a huge week, earnings season got into full swing with Alphabet going big on AI, and we draft our top stocks in the S&P 500 today. Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Emily Flippen discuss Meme stock mania returns, Alphabet’s $85 billion AI bet, Fantasy stock draft, 60-second earnings takes and Radar stocks. Companies discussed: Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), GXO, UPS, Accenture (ACN), Truist (TFC), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Lululemon (LULU), Chipotle (CMG), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), GM (GM), MGM Resorts (MGM), Garmin (GRMN), Chagee Holdings (CHA), Intel (INTC). Host - Travis Hoium; Guests - Lou Whiteman, Emily Flippen
Guests: Lou Whiteman,Emily Flippen
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Original Broadcast: Motley Fool Show
The U.S. and Japan announced a big trade deal that lowers tariffs to just 15% on imports, and we discuss earnings from General Motors, Intuitive Surgical, and Enphase Energy. Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Matt Frankel discuss Japan’s trade deal, GM’s stock drops after earnings, Intuitive Surgical’s growth continues, and Enphase Energy holds up well in a rapidly changing solar environment. Companies discussed: General Motors (GM), Tesla (TSLA), Toyota (TM), Honda (HMC), Intuitive Surgical (ISGR), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL). Host - Travis Hoium; Guests - Lou Whiteman, Matt Frankel
Guests: Lou Whiteman,Matt Frankel
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Original Broadcast: Modern Mindset
Rory McGowan is joined by Craig Allan from ABAX. New research reveals how much of our workday is spent searching for misplaced items, rather than focusing on our job. Rory and Craig discuss this and more about all things tracking tech. https://www.abax.com/en-gb
Guests: Craig Allan
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Rather a long title, but this is all about looking forwards! How would you like the future to be — new job, new home, new relationships ...? Try writing your own journal of the future, setting out what you would like it to be, and what will work for you as if it really happens — it just might!
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that we are living in changeable times and that the major political parties we have known all our lives may not hold sway for much longer. Jeremy Corbyn has finally agreed to join a new hard-left party with Zara Sultana, although the name won't be announced until its first conference. Pollsters suggest 10% of voters could support it, mirroring what is happening on the right with the Conservatives and Reform. Kemi Badenoch's reshuffle is instantly forgettable and confirms something is going seriously wrong with the Tories. Meanwhile Reform remains consistently ahead of Labour and is now trying to add form and structure, building a board and ensuring it is ready for the next election, which Tim feels could be in 2028.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
With UK box office up slightly as schools break up, James Cameron-Wilson found #5, a new version, 28 years on, of I Know What You Did Last Summer wildly implausible, very silly and undermined by a limp script. He thought #15 Four Letters of Love beautifully made. Starring the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne, it's a love story with a touch of Mills & Boon and, although it will have its fans, it isn't always believable. He also revisited 2007's Superbad, rereleased at #28. A time capsule with the likes of Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in her first film, it's somewhat misogynistic and would never be made nowadays. But there are great performances, much about it still feels fresh and funny and it was a template for much to come.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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Original Broadcast: Gadgets and Gizmos
Steve Caplin discusses an electric MPV, an e-scooter with a treadmill, a bike charging pad, a 100 mph e-scooter with faster acceleration than a Tesla and a humanoid robot that can change its own batteries. An Instagram influencer at Wimbledon turns out to be AI-generated while AI is gradually taking over from traditional film and TV effects. Peter Jackson is spending £11m on trying to recreate the extinct 12-foot, flightless moa bird of New Zealand. And scientists claim they can use nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Original Broadcast: The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors
Chloe Wong Yun Shing of Edison Group returns to the topic of Athens-listed energy & metals company Metlen. Expanding into the defence equipment supply chain, its stragegy remains capex-led and organically financed. Its arrival on the London market in August will be the biggest listing of the year and the £5bn company will qualify for entry to the FTSE, making it a unique and attractive new stock. Finlay Mathers of Edison highlights a relatively small labour supply company listed on AIM. Hercules is worth £34m and recently made a big acquisition. Its revenues are rising, its margins stable and the market in areas like power transmission is growing. Although little known, the company is trying to increase the level of retail interest.
Guests: Chloe Wong Yun Shing,Finlay Mathers
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
Italy is not alone in experiencing a massive fall in its birth rate over recent years: so has the United Kingdom. Lowering the voting age to 16 is all very well, but it needs to be accompanied by a raft of co-ordinated policies to help young adults towards family formation and independent living. Rural villages, where house prices are so often well out of reach for young people, provide a clear litmus test of whether these policies are working. Do you remember mortgage interest rate tax relief, or when university life didn't end in heavyweight student debt? We need a coordinated policy framework to improve conditions for young adults. Background music: 'Folk Tap Harp' by Unicorn Heads
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Original Broadcast: This is Money
How do you solve a problem like high house prices without sinking the economy? That's a conundrum that's kept politicians and central bankers awake at night for years. Now there's a new plan. Rachel Reeves unveiled a push for bigger mortgages this week, with the backing of the Bank of England, financial watchdogs, banks and building societies. Protections in place since the credit crunch-induced crash will be swept away. Are we forgetting the lessons from the financial crisis or adjusting the rules to meet a world that's different? Georgie Frost, Tanya Jefferies and Simon Lambert talk bumper mortgages and what next. Plus, the Chancellor has more plans, to get people investing, support the stock market and fire up the economy — will they work? As the FTSE100 flirts with a close above 9,000, is it time to buy British? And what do you need to know about paying inheritance tax rather than the usual topic of avoiding it?
Guests: Tanya Jefferies
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