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Oil Be Back … With Fake Pork and Coke
April 21, 2020 Great Stuff
The Reverse Beverly Hillbillies Have you ever wanted to own your own barrel of oil? You know, just for funsies? Well, you are in luck! Due to pandemic lockdowns, plunging demand and a lack of storage space — the price of crude oil plummeted to the low, low price of about $1.25 today. Heck, 10-year-old […] The Great Gilead Gaffe; P&G Earnings Are No Laugh
April 17, 2020 Great Stuff
Friday Four Play: The “Fool in the Rain” Edition In the evening, when the day is done, I’m looking for market sanity, but the girl don’t come. So, don’t let the market play you for a fool. She don’t show no pity. She don’t make no rules. Last night, I scanned the market headlines before […] Job Unrest; Abbott Tests; Netflix’s Best
April 16, 2020 Great Stuff
You’ve Got a Friend in Me “So, no one told you life was gonna be this way … (insert clapping here).” Weekly jobless claims are in, dear reader, and I had to do a double take. Roughly 5.24 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Now, we’ve […] Outplaying Big Banks; J.B. Hunt Bucks Up
April 15, 2020 Great Stuff
Banks Can’t Dance Regular Great Stuff readers know that music underpins many of our pop culture references. But, try as I might, I couldn’t come up with a good banking song for today’s issue. Not even a jingle. The only banking-related pop culture reference that came to mind was the old 1970s Smith Barney commercial: […] Relishing Relief: Fastenal Your Seatbelts
April 14, 2020 Great Stuff
How Do You Spell Relief? And they’re off! The first (annual?) U.S. quarantined corporate earnings season kicked off this morning, and investors loved the red-hot rally action. It was 2% to 3% gains across the board as the market opened. Wall Street finally has concrete data on how the pandemic has affected American businesses. JPMorgan […]