The Market And Energy Page, T+140 -- June 9, 2017

Updates

Later, 3:57 p.m. Central Time: was the 125-point NASDAQ sell-off a big deal? Apparently not: Drudge Report did not link it; I would have expected a banner headline, and possibly a rotating beacon!

Later, 1:50 p.m. Central Time: huge Nasdaq sell-off. Down 100 points. 

Later, 10:18 a.m. Central Time: Dow up 115 points. 

Later, 9:11 a.m. Central Time: S&P 500 hits a new record (CNBC: yawn). Dow up 80 points.

Later, 8:58 a.m. Central Time: NASDAQ hits new record; Dow up 72 points. Wow. New highs on the Dow 30: 141.

Original Post

Market: it looks like another nice day for the market. Although, if it plays out as it has historically seems to play out, futures will be green, followed by red by mid-morning, and then flat during most of the day, to remain slightly green, maybe even going red by the end of the day.

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Barron's: having said that (this is not an investments site), Barron's, in the current issue, has a list of six publicly-traded companies paying nice dividends. Any of the six are hard to ignore, but one company is particularly interesting. I don't recall all six -- I read the paper at the library yesterday -- but it included Becton Dickinson, J&J, Royal Dutch Shell.

Another trifecta: if futures hold, all three indices could hit new records in June:

• Washington, DC, at a standstill, massive gridlock 
• TNTC investigations going on in Washington
• the debacle in Britain