Notes From All Over -- The "Forty-Five Minutes" Edition -- July 2, 2020

Updates

Later, 3:01 p.m. CDT, markets closed until Monday. Surprisingly, the market held, the Dow closing up 140 points:

• AAPL: $364.11;
• TSLA: $1,208.66, up $89; up 8%;
• IMUX: up 56 cents; up 5%;
• CLR: $18.31; up $1.25; up 7%;
• AMZN: $2,890; up $11.60; up 0.4%
• WTI: $40.30

Original Post

Breaking: Jeffrey Epstein's amanuensis collared in New Hampshire.

Best forty-five minutes of the day, 8:50 a.m. to 9: 35 a.m. CDT.

TCM: the "Alphabet Murders." Whoo-hoo! A "Mrs Marple" cameo?

Corona virus: the fake numbers story -- pending -- update: I'm not going to post anything on corona virus now -- I've lost interest -- I'll do it later. The numbers are so questionable. If one just thinks through the process, one knows how questionable the numbers are.

TSLA: fantastic. I could never keep track of TSLA. But now that it's gone over 1200 we have a milestone I can follow.

• says it delivered 90,650 vehicles in 2Q20, beating expectations
• TSLA surges: up over 6%; up almost $70

Market cap:

• AMZN: $1.451 trillion; Bezos' net worth tops pre-divorce record; AMZN borrows $10 billion -- with a "B" -- low interest rates;
• MSFT: $1.571 trillion;
• AAPL: $1.589 trillion

Market caps:

• three companies vying for bragging rights at $1.5 trillion
• next group: $250 billion
• then: all the rest

Others:

• AAPL: nowhere near its recent high -- okay, it is -- but still in the green today.  
• IMUX: down 1.45%; very concerning in a surging market;
• CLR: up 5%
• PFE: the glow is off -- only up 2% today -- which suggests traders know the "vaccine" story was a bunch of hooey, as they say

WTI: $40.59. Okay.

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Sorry: prominent climate activist apologizes for "alarmism." Speaking of which: I watched another episode in a continuing PBS series on paleontology last night (I couldn't bear watching another airing of "Singing in the Rain" on TCM).

It's always amazing to see scientists question every bit of dogma we've been taught over the past three decades, but when it comes to global warming, the science is settled. The "star" paleontologist -- a charming young woman -- lost all credibility when she said the "science was settled." Wow. Another empty head, it appears.

Coffee.

Rumors: new portrait on "Aunt Jemima" syrup -- George Floyd. Personally, I think "Uncle Floyd's Slightly Off-White Rice" would be a much better fit. Log Cabin syrup. LOL. That name ain't gonna change. It's a favorite in San Francisco. And, so, we will have "Uncle George" syrup.

Syrup: by the way -- of the three major widely available pancake syrups out there, Aunt Jemima is the least "messy" when pouring. I don't know how "they" do it, but there is no dripping after pouring Aunt Jemima syrup. Just saying. 

Not being reported in MSM: I haven't seen a copy of the NYT ever since Starbucks quit selling newspapers, but my hunch is the the NYT is not reporting the jobs story today.

Not fake news: both parties and both candidates reported record amounts of "cash" donations 2Q20. DNC and Biden took in more than the RNC and Trump, but the latter still has a much, much better balance sheet.