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Sep 2023
41m 31s

The Office Space Depression

The Motley Fool
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Office real estate appraisals are seeing haircuts worse than the depths of the great financial crisis. 

(00:21) Ron Gross and Matt Argersinger discuss: - The Fed walking its talk and maintaining the expectation of another rate hike. - How office real estate is showing signs of trouble, but shouldn’t be weighing down all REITs. - The latest on UAW, WGA, SAG-AFTRA strikes and one metric that shows the gap between company results and worker pay. 

(19:11) Justin Hotard, Heads up Hewlett Packard Enterprise's High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence segments – breaks down misconceptions around artificial intelligence, and the best ways you can start learning more and understanding the AI future. 

(33:22) Ron and Matt break down two stocks on their radar: Fairfax Financial and Nike..

Stocks discussed: WPC, FDX, GIS, NFLX, WBD, F, GM, FRFHF, NKE, 

Pullback stocks report – info about the 5 stocks and joining Stock Advisor available at Fool.com/Pullback. Existing Motley Fool premium members can access the report here. 

Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Ron Gross, Matt Argersinger, Sanmeet Deo, Justin Hotard Engineers: Dan Boyd 

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