CVX, Apple, PBR, The NBA, And Photo Of The Year? April 12, 2022

Memo to self: USPS first class stamps

• forever stamps, first class, first ounce: 58 cents
• July 10, 2022: 60 cents

Market: due to extreme volatility of the market on the down side, I'm not following the market at all right now. 

But having said that, I checked in on CVX today with jump in oil price. CVX is up over $6 / share today. CVX is still well below its 520-week high. We often don't get these opportunities.

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PBR: increased its dividend; now pays 19.5%. Announced April 5. Record date April 18, 2022; pay date, May 23, 2022. 

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Refiners: cash machines?

• northern California Chevron refinery: in its third week strike action.
  

Apple: Mac shipments up in 1Q22 amid worldwide PC shipment decline. Link here. 

Apple's worldwide Mac shipments were slightly up in the first quarter of 2022. Apple shipped an estimated 7 million Macs during the quarter, up from 6.5 million in the year-ago quarter, marking 8.6 percent growth.

The sports page:

• playoffs begin
• play-in games begin tonight
• San Antonio Spurs tomorrow night vs Pelicans
• LA Lakers and LeBron James will be watching the playoffs on television or in the stands
• incredibly hard to believe that LA Lakers couldn't place higher than ten other teams in the 15-team league
• six coaches in past eleven years since Phil Jackson departed
• last time they made the playoffs: during the Covid-19 bubble
• Russell Westbrook: highest paid player on the LA Lakers team
• this tells me again just how good Phil Jackson as a coach was

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Photo Of The Year?

No trick photography.

Two-year-old grandson did this on his own. His twin brother watches, probably in amazement.