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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Bidenomics -- Market -- Economy Notes -- Part 1 -- July 18, 2023

Locator: 45163ECON. 

Wow! AAPL just went green!! I can buy a new pair of shoes for Sophia!

GDPNow: 4.2.

Market:

Weekly EIA petroleum report, link here.

  • US crude oil in storage: one percent above the five-year average! What tightening?
    • of course, the five-year average is affected by the plague years, 2020 - 2022
  • US refinery operators working at max capacity
  • distillate fuel increased slightly but still 14% below five-year average; 
    • refiners don't have "right oil" or economics not pushing distillate fuel (probably the latter)
  • gasoline product supplied over the past four weeks increased by almost 5% over same period last year
    • refiners responding
    • POV travel appears to be increasing;
  • along the highway, north Texas to northwest US, diesel was priced about the same as gasoline;
  • no shortaggees of fuel seen anywhere

CVX: up.

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Goldman Sachs profit plunges 58%.

It was so bad, their friends over at CNBC didn't put "58%" in th headline!

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