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Headline Round Up
*What the Federal Reserve Did and Said!
*Current Job Market Updates!
*Overall Home Sales Plummet Near 25% YoY.
*Opendoor Technology, Inc. Lays Off 18% of Workers.
*U.S. Building Permits Down 15% Since March.
*Peloton Interactive, Inc.’s Race to the Bottom?
*AbbVie, Inc. Profits Up 29% in Q3.
*Unum Group Profits Up 37% over 3 years.
*China’s Foxconn Workers in China Flee COVID-19 Lockdown at Large iPhone factory.
*New Car Prices Cooling; Prices dropped in October from July highs!
*Car Loan Rates at 14 Year High! Highest since April 2019.
*Billionaire Investor Leon Cooperman Still Likes Energy Even with Potential Recession in 2023.
*CEO’s Cutting Back on Staff and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Efforts Due to Recession Fears.
*SEC Staff Departures Escalate on Workload Concerns After Flurry of New Regulations.
*Shipping Container Demand Weakens Further on Recession Concerns.
*New Texas Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export Plant. Does that giant sucking sound go through pipelines?
*ExxonMobil, Corp. Cash Flows at Record $24 Billion Q3.
*Pioneer Natural Resources, Co. Repurchases $500 Million Worth of Shares at $218 a Share.
*Energy Transfer Earnings Up $371 Million Over Q3 2021 Earnings.
*Saudi Aramco Profit Surges $39% in Q3 Year over Year.
*E.U. Embargo of Russian Oil Could Send Brent Crude Prices “Well Above $100”, said Joseph McMonigle Secretary General of Riyadh-based International Energy Forum (IEF).
*Solar Tech Giant Enphase Energy, Inc. Doubles Profits Again in Q3!
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (12/31/2021 – 11/04/2022)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Meta Platforms, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Apple, Inc., Netflix, Inc., & Alphabet, Inc. (12/31/2021 – 11/04/2022)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Merck & Co Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, AbbVie Inc., and Unum Group (12/31/2021 – 11/04/2022)
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Global X MLP ETF (12/31/2021 – 11/04/2022)
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Quarterly U.S. Economic Forecasts With Probability of Recession (Q4 2021 – Q1 2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Quarterly Earnings Estimates (08/16/2022 – 11/15/2022)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Yearly U.S. Economic Forecasts With Probability of Recession (2015 – 2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Profit Report
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