Notes From All Over -- The Insomniac's Edition -- July 21, 2020

Again: Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth yesterday, Monday, July 21, 2020; this was the largest single-day jump on the Bloomberg Billionaires index since it was created -- Twitter; 

Delayed: Amazon will delay Prime Day 2020 by three months; this year's "big deal" will launch in October, 2020. Link here. In addition, it appears India is a big deal for Amazon, see link.

India: becomes 5th largest economy; overtakes UK, France; purchasing power parity exceeds Japan, Germany; wikipedia already has it updated: US, EU, China, Japan, Germany, India, UK, France, Brazil, Italy, Russia. I'm always amazed to see Italy so high on the list;

Fast and furious:

• suspect who killed son of  "Epstein judge" found dead by ... suicide.
• ABC News executive Barbara Fedida fired over racist remarks; google for link;
• previously reported: largest maker of small gasoline engines files for bankruptcy; hard to believe; no one is safe;
• first human trial of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine shows promise; pool talk -- majority of those I meet in our apartment complex say they will not get the vaccine;

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Market:

• NASDAQ sets new record; S&P turns positive for the year; google for link;
• Ericsson leaps on soaring 2Q20 earnings; 80% of employees work from home;
• Tesla reports tomorrow, Wednesday, July 22, 2020: four things to watch;
• Pre-market trading: AAPL up again; could flirt with $400/share on opening 
• behind a paywall, but headline says it all: Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has lost more market value in 2020 than all but four publicly traded US companies; I don't recall if this was on a percentage basis or a "raw" dollar basis; link here;
• Denbury Resources:
• market cap: $130 million
• cash on hand: $7 million
• total debt: $2.3 billion
• filed for bankruptcy in 2020;
  
• CLR: still has some decent acreage but unsustainable debt; SeekingAlpha;

Fracking bankruptcy: "fracking pioneer" BJ Services files for bankruptcy.