Locator: 48620MARKET.
Saudi: another $600 billion investment in the US -- this time from Saudi Arabia.
Pay attention to President Trump's remarks in Saudi Arabia.
Tariffs, link here:
The fog is beginning to clear.
Casually interested in:
- AAPL: holding gains from yesterday; flat today but still green.
- NVDA: up an astounding 6% so far today
- SCCO: up 1.5% today
- F: trading above $10 today
Bakken permits renewed over the past few days:
- past week
- Monday, May 5, 2025: 18
- Tuesday, May 6, 2025: 14
- Wednesday, May 7, 2025: 14
- Thursday, May 8, 2025: 21
- Friday, May 9, 2025: 16
- Monday, May 12, 2025: 14
- To put this in perspective:
- generally one can expect around two or three permit renewals;
- often there are days when there are no permit renewals;
- anything above five permits renewals gets my attention.

