Notes From All Over -- Pre-Market -- September 15, 2020

First things first: nice human interest story coming out of Divide County, North Dakota. Cool pictures; cool story. For those not familiar with geography of North Dakota: Divide County is pretty remote, even for North Dakota.

DIVIDE COUNTY, N.D. (KFYR) - Around 60 farmers in Divide County put their own harvesting on hold to cut 1,000 acres for a neighbor who suffered a heart attack after his combine caught fire last week.

Lane Unhjem was in the middle of harvesting when he went into cardiac arrest near Crosby, North Dakota.

Neighbors, friends, and family brought 11 combines, 6 grain carts, and 15 semis to get Unhjem’s Durum Wheat and Canola in the bin. When they heard about Unhjem’s situation last week, they immediately started coordinating an effort to help him out.

“I talked to a couple of farmers, got their equipment, and then other people just started calling and we had equipment offered from all over the place in the county, and their workers to go with it,” said family friend, Jenna Binde.

Earnings, 3Q20: earnings are increasing overall -- just not technology -- and 4Q20 should be even better. 

Tech: you will have to connect the dots. I don't have time. But think about this when thinking about the "cloud." One year ago, Sophia submitted no videos to the cloud. With distance learning, she is submitting upwards of three videos every day to her teachers. She's a first grader. Extrapolate. This is not rocket science.

Big day today:

• price of oil reverses
• US equity markets surging
• Apple special event later today
• Director's Cut scheduled to be released later today

OPEC cuts demand forecast. Again. Link here. I think if I look hard enough I might be able to find a "dog-bites-man" story.

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Best hour on CNBC: 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. CDT -- low-energy banter between Jim Cramer and another guy. 

Nancy: Jim Cramer is interviewing Nancy Pelosi -- volume is muted -- wow, her hair looks nice. I doubt Jim mentioned that as a lead-in. It would have been interesting to see her reaction! LOL.

Opening bell:

• S&P 500: up 28 points
• Dow: up 184 points;
• NASDAQ: up 151 points;
• AAPL: up $2.52 (about $10/share pre-split); trading at $117;
• TSLA: up almost 5% up $20; trading at $440;
• JNJ: could hit $150 today
• IMUX: down 8 cents; trading at $18.25
• T: same ol', same ol' -- up 8 cents; $29.21
• GBX: up 1.58%; trading at $29
• WMT: up 54 cents; trading at $137.86
• BRK-B: up a dollar; trading at $221

Tommy: his 15 minutes of fame in The Washington Post; looks like the WP is starting to put together the rationale for tearing down the wall under a Harris administration.

Dividends: I can't recall if I previously posted this. Link to SeekingAlpha. Archived.

Time to:

• check e-mail;
• more coffee;