Locator: 51345MARKET.
Futures: futures suggest it's a great time for stock picking traders.
The consumer is doing just fine, thank you. I consider Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen as focused on those consumers in the lower to lower-middle class demographics.
Intergenerational wealth transfer: has now reached $120 trillion over the next 20 years. Gemini suggests taking an annual "salary" of $70,000, a one-million-dollar inheritance will last fourteen to eighteen years.
Dow at record high.
Dow is on pace for best week since June, 2025.
AAPL: right now, three hours from market opening, AAPL is up almost $3/share.
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Disclaimer
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. Now, I've added Amazon. And QCOM. Longer version here.

