March 22, 2019, T+79 -- Part 2 -- Party School Ranking Across The US -- Keeping American Great

March Madness: Duke vs NDSU. Or if you prefer, NDSU vs Duke -- 6:10 p.m. tonight, televised. This should be a biggie. One not to miss. A reader reminded me that regardless of the outcome of the basketball game, NDSU will out-party Duke. I recall some years ago NDSU was named the #1 party school in the US. Today, not so much. NDSU does not make the top ten list. But let's do a bit more checking:

• Niche.com, link here:

• USD: #106
• NDSU: #144
• Duke: #191
• UND: #192
• SDSU: #228

The Market: with the Fed news and the German 10-year bond news yesterday, one expected the market to show red today -- so let's check --

• pre-market: the Dow down over 183 points
• early trading: recovered a bit, but now down almost 200 points
• the ones I watch, per share if not stated otherwise:

• D: up 60 cents
• Tesla, down $4.00
• XLNX, down $1.13
• UNP, down 55 cents;
• AAPL, up 80 cents;
• RDS-B, down 89 cents;
• CVX, down $1.45;
• COP, down $1.21;
• BRK-B, down $2.05
• NOG, down 11 cents (down almost 4%)
• OAS, down 17 cents (down about 2.6%)
• EOG, down $2.49 (down about 2.5%)
• EW, down $1.20
• JAG, down 22 cents, trading at $10.70

Definitely not as bad I thought it would be.

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Reality show for the refiners: over at twitter today, "Crudehead/#OOTT" suggests that the most significant change to the global refining complex in the last forty years is IMO2020. "Crudehead" suggests this will result in a shift of 3 million bopd (supply/demand). This shift will be "out with the sour, in with the sweet." "Crudehead" suggests IMO2020 will be "the mother of all widowmakers." In the big picture, WTI is sweet; OPEC is not. Tectonic shifts are rare but when they occur, huge opportunity for investors.

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