Trade War? What Trade War? Iran Sanctions? What Iran Sanctions? Pushback Against Trump? What Pushback? -- Wow -- Dow Up Over 200 Points In Early Trading -- The Market, Energy, Political Page, T+4 -- June 4, 2018

Time for some music -- in the mood for --

Come On, Eileen, The Dexys Midnight Runners
The market -- oh, before I forget, the disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment, financial, job, travel, or relationship decisions based on anything you read here or think you may have read here.

Now, back to the market:

• AAPL: $192, up $2.19, up 1.13% -- a new all-time high
• BABA: $207, up $2.65, up 1.3% -- a new all-time high
• EOG: $120, up $2.38, up 2% -- am I missing something?
  OAS: $13.29, up 10 cents; up 0.76% -- am I missing something?
• TSLA: $297.66, up almost $6; up 2% -- a great trading stock
• SRE: $104,up 18 cents; up 0.24%
• VLO (see below): $127, up $2.86, up 2.3% -- 52-week high -- another open book test

EV sales, May: the chart is not yet complete, for the month of May, but getting closer.  Check out Tesla deliveries.

SpaceX: speaking of Tesla, I read somewhere that SpaceX won't be launching space-tourists in 2019; original plans have been delayed. I assume the link is easy to find.

Valero: Mike Fitzsimmons has an update on Valero over at SeekingAlpha. Brent-to-WTI discount at $11. US refiners with excellent marine access to the Gulf of Mexico will be in the catbird seat. One of those is Valero, which has a current export capacity of 462,000 bpd.

Facebook: is "slow-rolling" one word, two words, or a hyphenated word? Just wondering.

Study linked over at the Drudge Report: too much bad news can make one sick. This explains the crude/foul language being used by late night talk shows. For the alt-left, there has been nothing but bad news for the past two years.

His movie: Bill Clinton insists he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky an apology for hijacking her life by taking advantage of her while president – and says HE'S a victim because he left the White House deeply in debt. Speaking of bad news: Bill Clinton left the White House with Hillary. Now, that's a real downer. But since leaving the White House, Bill's fortunes have turned -- in 2017 it was estimated his net worth was $70 million. Hillary? From TownAndCountry magazine:

Since Clinton herself said she and her husband left the White House "dead broke," what they've made since then provides a good idea of their net worth today.

Wealth-X estimates Hillary Clinton's net worth to be at least $18 million, and her federal financial disclosure filing in 2015 showed that she had between $11.3 million and $52.7 million in the bank.

Not so bad considering she's said she and her husband were $12 million in debt at the end of his presidential administration in 2001.

Comment: And their only work as far as I know: speeches and books. 

Melania: apparently Melania is "in hiding." I don't blame her. I hope she has the common sense to drop out of sight for five more years, at least. Will drive the pundits and paparazzi nuts. 

Homeless shelter: in the homeless shelter, despite the heavy downpour of rain this morning, there are only six of us. On the other hand, the drive-through is non-stop and the app-ordering-walk-in-pick-up (AOWIPU) crowd is one heavy stream. In fact it almost looks like a rivulet of drug addicts. The bathrooms, for the most part, remain unoccupied.