Gasoline Demand -- November 9, 2017

Gasoline demand (link here):

• significantly higher than same period last year; and,
• interestingly, trending slightly higher
• if 2016, was a record year for gasoline demand in the US, it looks like the latter part of 2017 could push 2017 into a strong second; due to huge difference in first half of the year, unlike that 2017 will set the record but it could be close

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Natural Gas Pipeline Update

There is simply too much activity in the natural gas sector for me to keep up with. For those following that story, here's an update on ETP's Rover and Mariner East II. I probably wouldn't have taken time to link the story but the Rover pipeline is a big, big deal. Think DAPL for natural gas, I suppose.

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The Apple Page

Jim Cramer has talked about the "$100-phenomenon." He says he looks for good companies whose shares are selling for $90 +/-, knowing that "$90-shares become $100-shares." It's simply a human quirk. As shares in publicly held companies approach $100, for some reason, investors get interested in buying the shares, and push the price to $100.

Likewise, as Apple approaches the trillion-dollar market cap the company will get more and more attention in the news, especially on CNBC. It's free advertising. The chatter will encourage investors to buy AAPL for a variety of reasons, not least of which to be able to brag to their friends that they own shares in the "only" trillion-dollar company.

Watch for Jim Cramer to start talking about this on December 15th. Just saying.

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For All Those Folks At CNBC Who Doubted Apple's iPhone X

That's just a couple of highlights. It's spooky-scary how much Apple is bringing out, and how fast they are evolving. See more at macrumors and scroll down just for the headlines. Tim Cook is on a roll.