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Walmart Stands Tall In a Rocky Retail Environment

Aug 22, 2025 ()

The retail earnings flood hit this week and it told us a lot about consumer spending, plus the market is once again buying into meme stocks and SPACs. Is this time different?

Travis Hoium, Jon Quast, and Matt Frankel discuss:

- Retail earnings and takeaways for investors

- Opendoor’s pop

- The return of SPACs

- Meta’s new AI strategy

Companies discussed: Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet (GOOG), Dollar General (DG), NXP Semiconductor (NXPI), Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Home Depot (HD), Lowe’s (LOW), TJ Maxx (TJX), Costco (COST), On Holding (ONON), Nike (NKE).

Host: Travis Hoium

Guests: Jon Quast, Matt Frankel

Engineer: Dan Boyd

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