Friday, July 2, 2021

Notes From All Over -- Finally Caught Up Edition -- July 2, 2021

Catfight! Link here. My favorite twit. LOL. 

Records, records, and more records.

  • all three major indices close at new records:
    • NASDAQ:  14,639.33.
    • S&P 500: 4352.34
    • Dow: 34,786.35

Ten-year Treasury yield: 1.431%. Pretty amazing, huh? All that hand-wringing over 1.5%. LOL. 

Steve on CNBC:

  • next Fed announcement in October, 2021 -- begin tapering (but very, very slowly)
  • first rate raise: October, 2022;
  • those numbers already "baked in" to today's market

Spiro Agnew: if she has not, should Kamala read his biography?

UK coal: UK to end coal use in electricity generation by one year, to October, 2024. Link here.

Today's humor. Despite major electricity reliability problems AOC wants Puerto Rico to shut down its reliable, resilient coal plant "tomorrow." This plant provides 20% of Puerto Rico's electricity. Link here

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