Cramer's First Hour, Part 3 -- Friday The Thirteenth, September, 2024

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WOW, WOW, WOW! WTI just hit $70.

Cramer's first hour: a mix of facts, factoids, opinions from various sources -- often not cited -- while listening to Cramer's first hour on CNBC.  

Gold hits record high.

China: still in deep trouble.

Ticker to watch today: AAPL.

Oracle: first story, of course. Up $10 pre-market; up over 6%.

Too many story lines: link here. The Europeans must really, really like bureaucracies.

Sell-off of tech could be over. 

Apple iPhone 16 go one sale today; deliveries one week from today, and in stores next week. 

Uber: will have a huge day. Will make Josh happy. Josh Brown, the buy-side analyst.

Boeing; for the archives, machinists on strike. First time since 2008. Looking for 40% increase in pay (minimum) and return of defined pension plan. 

BRK: not having a particularly good week.

Personal investing: Sophia continued to add to her tech position.

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The Book Page

For those interested in this genre, highly recommend Geniuses At War: Bletchley Park Colossus, And The Dawn Of The Digital Age, David A. Price, c. 2021. "Riveting" -- Walter Isaacson. Agree. 

Every page with an interesting anecdote. Exhibit A:

Italian naval Enigma was cracked in September 1940 by a nineteen-year-old assistant cryptographer, Mavis Lever. The daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress, she had been at University College London studying German Romantic poets when the university evacuated to Wales at the outbreak of war.

"I thought I ought ot do something better for the war effort than reading German poets in WAles," she said later. "After all, German poets would soon be above us in bombers."

She thought at first of training to be a nurse but an acquaintance steered her to the Foreign Office, where she might be able to use her German skill; from there, she was sent to Bletchley Park. She knew nothing about codebreaking when she started. As it turned out, she liked the work, though she was annoyed by the widespread and freely voiced assumption that her boss, Knox, had hired because she was very pretty.

Dillwyn Knox was a veteran GC&CS [Bletchley Park] codebreaker. At a two-day meeting in July, 1939, in the early days of all of this, Knox was among the first to learn that the Poles had been reading German military Enigma messages for most of the past half-dozen years.

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• Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market.
• I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple. 
• And now, Nvidia, also. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Nvidia.