US Markets -- Early Morning -- April 27, 2021

Mid-Day Market

CDC: fully vaccinated folks don't need to wear masks outdoors. Does that include garden parties?

Of interest:

• WTI: looking good. OPEC holds production quotas.  
• COP: up 1% 
• CVX: flat to up slightly; 
• XOM: up half a percent;  
• OKE: up slightly; basically flat 
• ENB: surprisingly, up about 1%: 
• EPD: flat, down slightly; 
• MNRL: down about half a percent 
• DFS: continues to surge; after several great days, up another 1.2%;
• My favorites: 
• UNP: up half a percent; 
• SRE: down about a third of a percent; a-$124-stock now trading at $136 
• WMB: maintains dividend; pays just slightly less than 7%. 

Original Post

Wheat futures in Chicago touch highest since 2013. 

Consumer confidence:

• better than expected
• 121.7 vs 113 forecast
• highest in fourteen months
  

Blow-out earnings and blow-out margins:

• the re-opening trade;
• the re-opening is just getting started

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UPS:

• jumps into record territory after big profit and revenue beats; and,
• here at The WSJ;
• sales jump 27% to $23 billion; supply-chain and freight segment up 34%

BP:

• profits soar; this is quite a story; link here;
• commits to share buybacks after 1Q21 earnings double; link here;
  
• when earnings season is all over it will be interesting to see how XOM did compared to the rest;
• story: XOM failed to take advantage of "trading;" 

TESLA:

• reports record earnings; previously posted; this is The WSJ story;
• TSLA: down almost 4% in early trading today
  

AMD: reports after market closes later today.

Others of interest:

• XLNX: green, but barely;
• UNP: up slightly;
• AAPL: flat, actually down one penny today;
• DFS: up about half a percent;
• MNRL: up 1.53% -- whoo-hoo!

GE:

• does anyone care any more?
• another bad quarter: hit by slump in aviation business; well, duh;
• profit and free cash flow beats estimates (the bar must have been set low) but revenue fell shy;