Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- Halloween Eve, 2019

North Texas: below freezing overnight; 29 degrees this morning; probably colder earlier; one of the earliest dates ever for freezing in north Texas; dry but it's going to be very, very cold for trick and treaters tonight.

Pre-market trading:

• Dow down 75 points
• NASDAQ: down 13 points
• S&P: down 8 points

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Back to pre-market trading:

• AAPL: up 1.5%; up $3.59; back to where it was several days before earnings reported
• GE: up 11% yesterday; not much movement today
• BA: after a bit of a jump yesterday, dropped back a percent; trending lower today
• TSLA: down a bit
• GM: down very slightly
• EW: up slightly yesterday; no pre-market trading yet
• Hey, what about OKE? Didn't OKE report yesterday? 
• forecast: 74 cents
• reported: 74 cents
• OKE: down 2.3% yesterday; down $1.63; trading at $70

Shell: absolutely no idea what to make of this -- mixed stories coming out of Shell -- one story has it that Shell says it is having macroeconomic problems; may affect dividend; stock buyback; another story -- "Shell's earning positively surprise Wall Street" -- but shares in pre-market trading down significantly. Link here:

• posted lower-than-expected decline in earnings
• earnings, on an adjusted basis, slumped 15% y/y to $4.9 billion
• a lot lower than analysts' estmated of 26%
• earnings of $1.18 beat analysts' estimate of 99 cents
• Shell's revenues of $86.6 billion beat analysts' estimates of $73.7 billion
• previous quarter: earnings touched a two-year low and missed the forecast