Daimler, Daimler, Daimler -- February 11, 2020

Talk about spin:

• Daimler cuts dividend as downturn, R&D costs hit Mercedes -- Reuters. 
• Daimer's Mercedes sales drive higher but charges put brakes on profit -- Reuters via Yahoo!Finance.
• Daimler CEO promises fresh approach after bumpy start in role -- Bloomberg via Yahoo!Finance. 

The real story: fraud.

Market:

• S&P 500, NASDAQ: hit all-time records. Again.
• Sprint, of course, will surge, maybe double in share price before the week is out; it's already up 74% today;
• AAPL: up a bit, $322.23
• SRE: up a bit, $158.66
• UNP: a bit, $185.32
• IMUX, down two cents, at $8.89
• EW, up a bit, at $228.64
• XLNX, up 4.07%; up $3.51; trading just under $90; 52-week high: $142;
• ENB, wow, up over 1%; up 44 cents; trading at $43, with a one-year target of $45; and paying 5.74%;

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Local weather, DFW (north Texas): drowning in rain this week.

Politics: New Hampshire primary will be a hoot. Republicans "writing in" the Dem of their choice.

Later, what does this cruise ship have in common with Mitt Romney?

• Choices:
• no party for either?
• both are quarantined?

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The Book Page

From Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origin of the Epic, Andrew Dalby, c. 2006

From page 153, the denouement:

• the two epics; oral poems; most well-known singer associated with the epics: Homer
• Homer probably lived around 850 BC
• Iliad: written down -- 650 BC
• Odyssey: written down -- 630 BC
• author of the written versions: 
• unknown
• both by same author
• a woman

This is quite interesting. Harold Bloom came to the same conclusion regarding the authorship of much of the Old Testament.