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Headline Round Up
*Best Two Years for US Equity Since 1999.
*Natural Gas Surged 50% in 2024. See Chart.
*North America’s LNG Export Capacity on Track to More than Double by 2028.
*Cheniere Starts First LNG at Corpus Christi Plant Expansion.
*Latin America’s Richest Man, Carlos Slim Invested $1 Billion in 2024 to Supercharge Oil Bets.
*GDP Q4 Economic Growth 2.6%, Revised Down from 3.1% by Atlanta Fed. 2024 Growth 2.8% Stronger Than Forecasts.
*King Dollar! Why the Dollar’s Epic Rally Could Have a Little Further to Run.
*Chinese Stocks Have Worst start Since 2016 to Start 2025.
*Chinese Government Hackers Breached Treasury Department That Administers Economic Sanctions.
*BlackRock’s Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund Grew to $50 Billion in 11 Months. The Biggest Launch in ETF History.
*A Record $1 Trillion Poured into Exchange Traded Funds in 2024.
*Even Rich Retirees Fear Outliving Their Money.
*WSJ: How Health Insurers Racked Up Billions in Extra Payments from Medicare Advantage.
*Tesla EV Sales Fall in 2024. First Time in a Decade.
*Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Soar After Bill Ackman Post. Why?
*Residential Real Estate – 2025 Heading into Oversupply? See Chart.
*$300 Billion in Office Building Debt to be Refinanced in 2025.
*The Age of Quantum Software Has Already Started.
*Retail Theft Surges 93% in 5 Years and Retailers have not been Crying Wolf.
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Member Ranked Returns, Best Performing/Worst Performing 1 Year (12/31/2023 – 12/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index 1 Year (1/2/2024 – 12/31/2024)
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Standard & Poor’s 500 Index 1 Year (1/2/2024 – 12/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Natural Gas 1 Year (1/2/2024 – 12/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Case-Shiller Dallas Home Prices Index 5 Year (1/31/2020 – 10/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Case-Shiller Home Prices Index 1 Year (1/31/2024 – 10/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Case-Shiller Dallas Home Prices Index 1 Year (1/31/2024 – 10/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
