Locator: 49269XFILES.
Opening, chyron:
- AVGO: up over $9;
- BK: up 10 cents; one year: up 51%;
- TSM: up $3.58;
- AMD: up $5.82
- CVX: actually up a little; wow;
- OXY: down 3%;
- BRK-B: down another $2.34 today;
- AAPL; down 0.14%; aka flat;
- CAT: on a tear; up another $5.79 today.
Tech sector: at record highs.
Tesla: delivered 497,099 EVs in 3Q25, exceeding expectations of 456K (some say 440K).
Tesla: most deliveries ever, in any quarter.
Shutdown: by tomorrow, 1.5 million government employees projected to be furloughed.
Shutdown: today, 750K government employees will be furloughed today.
Cellphones: no one used their cellphones any more as telephones. Don't take that out of context, Telemarketing is not entirely responsible but has played a major role. Next big thing: AI solves the problem.
Net worth:
- top 0.1%: 135K households; aggregate net worth: $24 trillion;
- bottom 50%: 67 million households; aggregate net worth: $4 trillion
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Disclaimer
Brief
Reminder
Briefly:
- I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken and I am often well out front of my headlights. I am often appropriately accused of hyperbole when it comes to the Bakken.
- I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market.
- I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.
- See disclaimer. This is not an investment site.
- Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment, financial, job, career, travel, or relationship decisions based on what you read here or think you may have read here. All my posts are done quickly: there will be content and typographical errors. If something appears wrong, it probably is. Feel free to fact check everything.
- If anything on any of my posts is important to you, go to the source. If/when I find typographical / content errors, I will correct them.
- Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, 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. Nvidia is a metonym for AI and/or the sixth industrial revolution.
- I've now added Broadcom to the disclaimer. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Broadcom.
- Longer version here.
