Notes From All Over -- The Early Morning Edition -- Part 7 -- August 24, 2020

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Plasma: think of the 100's of thousands of Americans who have tested positive for Covid-19. You think these folks aren't going to rush to blood banks to sell their plasma? Hard to say, but something to watch.

The market, pre-market, about one hour to the open:

• Dow: up 260 points
• S&P 500: up almost 30 points
• NASDAQ: up almost 115 points
• WTI: up over 1%
• individual stocks:
• TAK: Blackstone to acquire Takeda's consumer health business for $2.3 billion; link here;
• AAPL: up over 5% on Friday; now up almost another 4% today; up almost $20/share, could open above $515/share: day-of-record to get in on that incredible AAPL split which CNBC reminds us every day: the split does not add any intrinsic value to the stock or the company
• speaking of which, I haven't seen Jim Cramer yet this morning; on vacation?
• but Mr Doom and Gloom himself, Steve Liesman, is on now talking about he coming recession; calls it a double-dip recession; okay; on mute; just watching the crawler;
  
• UNP: up about 3/4ths of a percent; now trading at $193
• SRE: not trading yet; closed Friday well off its highs
• IMUX: down 1.6%; down 29 cents; trading at $18.15
• airlines: up today [in fact, by mid-morning, surging 8% to 10%]
  
• pipelines
  
• ENB: up about 0.6%
• KMI: up about 1.35%
• CLR: up 2.63%

Remember, for a healthy immune system:

• orange juice
• sunflower seeds
• beef
• beer -- and more specifically, Belgian beer
  

And it's National Waffle Day. What's not to like. 

And I'm still blown away by Sophia Popov yesterday, and Dustin Johnson.

Completely missed the Indy 500 except for the first ten laps and the last ten laps. What a disappointment. Too many commercials for the Indy 500, and that finish. Are you kidding me? Five laps left and Indy 500 owners had seen enough. Called the race with five laps to go. I've never seen anything like it. 

Off the net in a few minutes. Out to the swimming pool before 8:00 a.m. CDT if possible.