Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- January 9, 2020

Busy, busy, busy today. Will do quick takes and come back to them later. Maybe.

Jobs, link here:

• prior: 222K
• revised: 223K
• consensus forecast: 219K
• actual: 214K
• change: down 9,000
• no signs of wage inflation
• what's not to like

Rigzone has the story, also -- tells you how big this story is -- Exxon, Outrigger ink midstream deal to serve the Bakken. 

Trump backs away from conflict with Iran. Bloomberg via Rigzone. Interesting headline. My headline: Iran blinked.

Track the 82nd Airborne Division headed to the Mideast here.

Track the Iranian economy here: in six charts.

Now we know: it was a Russian missile.

Tesla deaths tracked here. #14 here for the NTSB? Two fatal US Tesla crashes on same day, December 29, 2019: one in Gardena, California; one in Indiana.

The Wall: appeals court allows use of $3.6 billion in military construction funds for border wall.

Apple: extends record run as China iPhone sales surge.

Apple: 18% more iPhones shipped to China. Barron's paywall. 

Apple: App Store sales hit record $1.4 billion in final days of 2019. These are just "apps" and this is just the final days of the holiday season.

Apple: App Store set single-day spending record of $386 million on New Year's Day. This was just the "app store" and this was on a single day.

Apple: could be close to a $2 trillion company in 2020.

Apache: I was wondering why this stock soared the other day, but ran out of time, and then forgot, to try to find out. Tsvetana Paraskova explains. And here, Anes Alic explains.

Making Texas great: the ten largest planned petrochemical and plastics plants (graphic undated; unsure of source):

Making Texas great: Texas ethylene terminal loads first cargo. 

Shell: looking for 15% for retail gasoline market in Mexico.

Offshore: will be a busy, busy year. So much for all that CAPEX handwringing.

Off-shore: Transocean contract backlog grows by $353 million.
New "national" poll out: again, the only interesting thing about this poll is that the Economist continues to be an outlier when it comes to Pocahontas.

Cancer-free: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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