Picks And Pans -- Sports, Market -- September 10, 2021

Updates

Later, 2:02 p.m. CT: I flip-flop so much, I make John Kerry look like St Peter, the Rock. LOL. I mentioned below that I only watched the first half of last night's NFL TNF, and had no plans to watch any more NFL this year. Well, I'm re-thinking that. I may watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and a few plays in any game in which Dallas is playing. A reader sent me this.

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Everyone loves a comeback:

• great, great opener; Tom Brady vs Dallas Cowboys
• Dak Prescott set all kinds of records
• a three-point loss
• but, at the end of the day, a loss is a loss -- no matter how close
• did we just see the best game of the season?
• I watched the first half, then turned it off
• I don't plan to watch any more NFL this year; I don't think there can possibly be a better game; oh, I'll surf through the games on Sunday, Monday, and Thursday, but won't watch much
• review: USA Today, the day after;
• review: USA Today, Brady pulls off ugly win (hey, guys, a win is a win is a win)

NASCAR this weekend:

• we're in the playoffs
• second of three: 16 in the race
• junior league: Richmond, tomorrow, 1:30 p.m, CT, NBCS
• varsity: Richmond, tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. CT, NBCS

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ENB: after SRE, the stock I love to follow most -- ENB

• it's been in a trading range, like, forever
• broke out above $40 earlier this morning, but has now been beat back to $39.83
• pays 6.55%
• "Enbridge bags a whale." Lost behind a paywall, but the headline says it all;
• Line 3 should be flowing by the end of the month (September, 2021)
• at 620,000 bpd, Line 3 competes with what Keystone XL would have been had Resident Biden not killed it;
• 620,000 bpd is a doubling of capacity; will be phased in; initial capacity: 350,000 bpd
• ENB's 6.7% yield looks sustainable; The Motley Fool;
• change in FERC widens the moat for companies like ENB, and WMB

TTE: another company I like to follow

• Zacks Equity Research: which is the better value stock (September 6, 2021): TTE or CWEN?
• Zacks:
• TTE: buy
• CWEN: hold

AAPL:

• why Resident Biden can't fix the semiconductor shortage problem;
• AppleWatch software chief moves to head the Apple Car project;
• Apple Car project? Apple will go it alone; my hunch: wrong; it's in the definition, "alone."

Port congestion, link here: not going away any time soon

• graphic looks scary

Walmart: will end quarterly bonus

• "everyone"gets an hourly pay raise. Link to The WSJ. 

What a waste:

• The Flash actor Logan Williams, just shy of his 17th birthday -- dies of accidental drug overdose.

Costco:

• I hate clickbait and this post is nothing but clickbait, but it's kind of fun, and not that hard to navigate: the big brands behind Costco's Kirkland label;
• bottom line: Kirkland is a hidden gem; you will never go wrong
• buy one "container" of the original, then after that fill the original "container" with the Costco Kirkland brand. LOL

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AAPL: for the archives. Dropped at least 2.5% today. From $155 to $150 this week. May get worse before it gets better. Buying opportunity.