Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2026

Suffer high gas prices a bit longer. It's a small price to pay, says Trump.

RTOil for over $100 a barrel ‘very small price to pay’ for Iran war – Trump

The US president has attempted to quell fears that the military operation he launched will exacerbate the global energy crisis.

Talking points out and spread by every Western MSM Jew-controlled media. 

But - but...The Orange Shitgibbon says U.S. oil companies are falling over each other vying for Venezuelan oil. 

RT: US oil companies going to Venezuela – Trump

US President Donald Trump has said that American oil companies are going to Venezuela in light of the South American country’s latest push to incentivize foreign investment in its energy sector.

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[No, U.S. oil co's aren't clamoring to obtain Venezeulan oil. - DD]   Exxon CEO Darren Woods has poured cold water on the idea, saying that the South American country is “uninvestable, given the “commercial constructs and frameworks in place” there at present. He added that “durable investment protections” are the prerequisite to any long-term involvement.

RTWhy American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’

Exxon boss Darren Woods described Venezuela as “uninvestable.” Woods said: “We have a very long history in Venezuela… We’ve had our assets seized there twice. You can imagine to re‑enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here and what is currently the state.” He added: “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s uninvestable. And so significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections, and there has to be a change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country.”

The Exxon CEO’s comments were echoed by Conoco’s boss, Ryan Lance, who said: “We need to be also thinking about even restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system, including PDVSA.”

What that means is that Venezuela is far from under US control.

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From the viewpoint of Big Oil, it’s not mission accomplished. Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’, which is the capitalist way of saying, there was no regime change to give the oil companies what they want – total control over Venezuela’s hydrocarbon wealth.




Bu-bu-but oil prices fell to the $89-$90/barrel today


Yeah, well, oil is one of the volatile commodities one can speculate/trade. One imagined blip or market skepticism can send prices up by $50, $100 or more in a split second. 

TURST THE PLAN! 🤣

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Where are world markets this morning?

Hit MW and Crypto links:

Market Watch.

^  Link defaults to US Market. Once there, remember to click and view Europe, Asia, Futures and Crypto. 

Crypto. < All Crypto.


Monday, August 5, 2024

Where are world markets this morning?

Schuduled Sunday night to post Monday AM. I may sleep in. Why awaken early for disaster? Pray it's not as bad as the Stonkers predict.

Market Watch.

^  Link defaults to US Market. Once there, remember to click and view Europe, Asia, Futures and Crypto. 

Crypto. < All Crypto.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

CBS News: Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

A study by researchers from Columbia University and NYU called "Trading on Terror?" suggests that a trader may have been aware of the coming attack, bet against the Israeli economy and walked away with a profit by short selling on the U.S. and Israeli stock exchanges.
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[...] the Israel Exchange-Traded Fund [...] on any given day has around 2,000 shares shorted. According to the researchers, on Oct. 2, that number shot up to over 227,000 shares.
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According to Columbia Law School Professor Joshua Mitts, one of the authors of the study, "that's extremely unusual." It was also profitable[.]
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All of this led them to their conclusion that the trades were not a coincidence, but a tactic by someone who knew the attack was coming.

"We think it's virtually impossible this happened by chance," Mitts told CBS News.

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Bud Light can't give away beer!

HITC: Bud Light offering $20 rebates to flog beer after controversy.

Bud Light is practically giving away beer with $20 rebates at certain stores as they try and sell crates following the controversy.
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[... and] backlash for partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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People have seen the notices at Meijer, Kroger, and other stores, and have taken to Twitter to share photos of the rebates.

Here’s one:

    I've been sober for almost a decade, so I'm not sure on this, but ain't a case like $20 most places?

    Things can't be going great if they're basically giving it away… pic.twitter.com/aeCgHjlnEe

    — Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) May 13, 2023

And another:

    Stopped by my local Kroger tonight and they had a $10 rebate on cases of Bud Light and no one will still even touch it.  pic.twitter.com/K1iP5lDI5F
    — Scott Burns (@SeminoleScott) May 12, 2023
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The Bud Light marketing team must still be all women if they think a coupon will get a man’s attention,” she amusingly wrote in the caption.

What’s a coupon?” one man joked in the comments.

Another said: “We hate rebates, too much work.”

Literally never used a coupon in my life, so yeah this checks out,” a third person added.

In other business news: Adidas has decided to sell Kanye merchandise after deciding not to sell Kanye merchandise.

 

A great time to be alive in an era of Bad Marketing and PR!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Lucira at-home test for "Does I hab TEH COOF or DA FLU" is FDA approved.


Talk about niche target-marketing to hypochondriacs and Teh Coof-obsessesed.

UPI: FDA authorizes first at-home test to detect both flu and COVID-19.

The Lucira test will be sold over-the-counter and it can detect both Influenza A and Influenza B, as well as the SARS-CoV-2 virus - the virus that causes COVID-19, FDA officials announced Friday in a news release.

The announcement marks a breakthrough as the first at-home test for flu, the Washington Post reported. Testing for the flu previously required a visit to a doctor's office or urgent care clinics.

Will a majority of people make a mad-dash, rushing to test themselves the moment they sneeze or have a runny  nose? Probably, based on the number of past, current and "I plan to take all future Coof Boosters" Jab Addicts and Mask-Karens.

Lucira. The FDA approved an at-home test from a company whose stock closed on Friday at .14 cents, whose all-time high of $37/share was two years ago and their  52W high is $5.67? Oh, yeah - full faith and trust, BAYBEE!

It might be a worth a look as a short-term buy-hold-sell when or if it hits "dollars." (This is not presented or intended in any way as financial or investment advice.*)

If I felt energetic, I'd search who the big buyers and investors of Lucira stock are the past 30-90 days. I wonder if Paul "The Hammer" Pelosi, Sr. or other spouses of politicians sank some $$$$$ into this Pharma Company?

With a 52W low of .04 cents, Lucira badly needed a Booster product. I wonder how many palms at the FDA and TPTB were greased? It'd be great if this product failed. 

* DISCLAIMER: Lucira stock assessment is purely speculative. It is NOT financial advice. Author assumes no risk, responsibility and/or liability for any financial losses. Immediately seek trained health professionals if you have the slightest inclination rolling dice with your financial risk based on anything written anywhere on this blog.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

US Markets Shudder on Dashed Inflation Hopes; Dow Falls 1,250.

VOA (Archived): US Markets Shudder on Dashed Inflation Hopes; Dow Falls 1,250.

NEW YORK — Stocks tumbled to their worst day in more than two years Tuesday, knocking the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,250 points, following Wall Street's humbling realization that inflation is not slowing as much as hoped. (Insert your Shocked Face! - DD)

The S&P 500 sank 4.3%, its biggest drop since June 2020. The Dow fell 3.9% and the Nasdaq composite closed 5.2% lower. The sell-off ended a four-day winning streak for the major stock indexes and erased an early rally in European markets.

Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated only to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.

The hotter-than-expected reading has traders bracing for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even higher than expected to combat inflation, with all the risks for the economy that entails. Fears about higher rates sent prices dropping for everything from gold to cryptocurrencies to crude oil.

Dementia Joe's Marxist Inflation Reduction Act is off to a great start!

Friday, July 29, 2022

Paul Pelosi, Sr., loses money selling Nvidia stock before Senate vote. GOOD!

Forbes: Pelosi Unloads Millions In Nvidia Stock At A Loss Before Senate Passes Massive Tech Subsidies.

Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at $165.05 on Tuesday, worth $4.1 million, according to the filing.

Pelosi lost $341,365 in the transaction, according to the filing.

Have they started a Go Fund Me yet? Nancy has designer ice cream to eat and Paul, Sr., has to pay for the damage to his Porsche that he wrapped around a tree.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Paul Pelosi, besides being a drunk driver, is an exceptionally prescient stock investor.

Daily Caller: Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Millions In Chip Stocks Right Before Vote On Massive Chip Subsidy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul bought up to $5 million in stock of a computer chip company ahead of a vote on a bill next week that would hand billions in subsidies to boost chip manufacturing, a financial disclosure shows.

Paul Pelosi purchased 20,000 shares of Nvidia, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, on June 17, according to the speaker’s disclosure report released Thursday. Now, senators will convene as early as Tuesday to vote on a bipartisan competition bill, which allocates $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and gives tax credits for production, Reuters reported Thursday.

“It certainly raises the specter that Paul Pelosi could have access to some insider legislative information,” Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the left-wing think tank Public Citizen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is the reason why there is a stock trading app that exclusively monitors Paul’s trading activity and then its followers do likewise.”

He has the Magic "D" behind his name. Nothing will happen to him.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Parsing Nanny Pelosi


Did you see Nanny Pelosi this past Sunday, the 26th, on ABC's "This Weak With George Stephanopoulopopoplopolus"?

Here's a recap on the nonsense that she attempted to proffer as facts.

Pelosi, as have many other Liberals, claims that [President Donald Trump] "has put Wall Street ahead of the American people."


That's a nice sound byte that the Fakestream™ Media will be sure to broadcast, but it's a bogus accusation.

I guess every four or eight years, Wall Street, like the White House, completely and totally changes its political affiliation.

It's painfully obvious that any accusation that the interests of Wall Street are placed above those interests of Main Street wasn't whispered about during the eight years under Barack Hussein Obama.

When Obama took office, the DOW was 7,949.

At the end of the trading day of the 2017 presidential inauguration, the DOW closed at 19,827.

Why, there can only be one conclusion: Obama put Wall Street ahead of the American people.

Fills in facial wrinkles and skin crevices!

Pelosi also said that our health care costs were rising so much, to an unprecedented level eight years ago, it is the reason for passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka the atrocious and invasive "ObamaCare."

Allow me to remind everyone that the political party of "Keep Your Hands Off My Body" is now the party of "Keeping the Government's Hands All Over My Body."  THANK GOD the financial penalty for not having proof of health insurance was surgically excised by Doctor Trump.

If I understand Pelosi correctly, she's saying that our health care costs were so high prior to ACA, that the only way to reduce those costs was to spend billions, increasing the cost of health care premiums for millions of Americans and implementing one of the most onerous and invasive federal programs since the absurdly costly Socialism foisted upon the American people since FDR and LBJ.

Pelosi babbled on and on, reciting the Usual Liberal Talking Points as only a well-rehearsed Liberal magpie can do.

Among other inane rambling from this woman, who appears to have had three-too-many face lifts considering the skin across her face is stretched across her like saran wrap atop a bowl of potato salad, Pelosi said, "we must focus on rebuilding our infrastructure."

Our infrastructure needs rebuilding? I don't understand this. Upgrading our infrastructure was a MAIN FOCUS of EX-PRESIDENT Barack Hussein Obama.

Excuse me, but wasn't our infrastructure completely upgraded with all the Shovel Ready Jobs  Obama created by pushing the U.S. into trillions of dollars of debt?

Obama and his political and voting Cultists FAILED in reforming any type of health care ("If you want to keep your doctor, you can.") causing all health care costs to skyrocket for everyone.

Obama and his Cultists FAILED with flying colors in rebuilding our infrastructure.

And Wall Street? Apparently Wall Street as a non-living organism (a street does not live and breath) and the people working for Wall Street, were all Democrats for the past eight years.

The Liberal Insane Clown Posse GLOSSES over the fact that THEIR LOSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON LOSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON LOSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON LOSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON -- sorry about that, sometimes my fingers simply enjoy typing that phrase repeatedly and I can't control it.

Let's give that another try: The Liberal Insane Clown Posse GLOSSES over what a Wall Street shill they had in Hillary Clinton. Hypocrites, yet - no surprise.

As of January 20th, everyone who works in any capacity related to Wall Street - like the pod people in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - awakens now as a greedy Republican institution when for the past eight years Wall Street must have, obviously, all been Democrats.

How does an entire industry, whose financial metrics, soared to unprecedented heights during eight years of Obama suddenly, overnight, morph into Republicans? The Answer: it doesn't. It's simply another lie told by Liberals.

Pelosi, a national "charity case."


















Pelosi's estimated net worth is $120 MILLION. 

In fact, her net worth increased 62 percent in just ONE YEAR! Wouldn't you like a net worth increase of 62 percent in one year? Who wouldn't?
Forms disclosing the assets and liabilities of lawmakers for the 2010 calendar year were released Wednesday. The forms give a good estimate of lawmaker wealth, though they show ranges and not precise values for stocks, pension plans, vacation homes and other assets of lawmakers.
Pelosi saw her wealth rise due to some stock gains.

Stocks? Pelosi owns stocks? Stocks? Stocks are related to Wall Street, aren't they?

Let us not forget about the fine imposed because of her misuse of spending of PAC money.

Nancy Pelosi does not care about working Americans, and when I use the phrase working Americans I'm talking about anyone whose yearly salary is anywhere between $12,000 to $100,000.

The most recently available median salary for the U.S. is $55,775.

Pelosi does not identify with working Americans, she never will...she can't. She is a talking bobble-head whose purpose is only to further Liberalism. She is losing the fight and her fellow Uber Liberals are apoplectic that their political agenda is dying and life support...well, life support isn't looking so good for them now. And that's a good thing.