Jeff Bezos is the only 1 of the top 5 wealthiest American's that has not singed a giving pledge...
Amazon just crushed this entire ecosystem of stocks Friday, 16 Jun 2017 | 5:00 PM ET The “Fast Money” traders discuss the Amazon-Whole Foods deal valued at $13.7B and other grocery names to watch
I was hoping to get an easy screen capture of the Amazon effect screen at 5:02 PM friday where they show the 30 Billion in market cap. lost just 19 of the companies.. which is a subset of all the companies in the impacted by AMZN's deal for Whole foods.
whether it's Kroger, Target, Costco, Walmart, Hormel, Gen Mills, Dollar General, Kellogg, Conagra, Tyson, Hershey's Campbell, Mondelez, Smuckers, Kraft Heinz, Sysco...... and the list goes on in the Multi trillion dollar ecosystem...
all impacted negatively by the AMZN acquisition of whole foods.
so far his family foundation is giving 1/10 of 1 %..... .0001 of his networth to charitable causes... however on Friday they reported on Squawk on cnbc that he is soliciting ideas on twitter for projects
he wants them to be at the "intersection of immediate need and lasting impact"..... that should be a discussion board topic on SI is it?
recording and watching the first 15 + minute commercial free segment of the 6 AM show on CNBC is excellent you can watch it later in the day or on a Sunday and be ROTFLMAL..... when Joe Kernan is "the man.... very witty, and MIT chemistry graduate.... Becky Quick .... excellent counterbalance and A R Sorkin.... very accomplished CV....
The humor, satire and repartee is arguably on so many days the best content you are going to view anywhere and relevant to major news items, politicals and markets... and they interlace all 3.
Fast money at 5PM is worth a quick scan threw... and on Friday at 5:30 the options show has 20 minutes of programming that looks at the big picture and you don't need to trade an option or even know how they trade to get value....... a basic understanding of options... which most of us have... is
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