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Headline Round Up
*NYSE Chicago to Reincorporate Operations as NYSE Texas & Launch an Electronic Exchange in Dallas!
*Texas Stock Exchange or TXSE (“Tex-ee”) Hopes to Begin Trading in 2026.
*Realtor.com Moving to Austin from California?
*Wall Street Journal: The Inside Story of Chevron’s Move From California to Texas?
*Sticky Inflation! Consumer Price Index (CPI) at 3% From a Year Ago & Producer Price Index (PPI) Up 3.5% For the Same Timeframe Making it Likely the Federal Reserve will Delay Future Interest Rate Cuts.
*Trump: 25% Tariff on Imports of Steel and Aluminum Without Exceptions.
*China’s Tariff Retaliation Resumes Long Simmering Trade War.
*Gold Is Shiny at New All Time High This Week! Dealers Flying Gold Bars by Plane From London to New York?
*Emerging Market Strategy? New Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Avoiding Investment in China?
*BMI Research: Henry Hub Gas Prices Predicted to Rise 42% in 2025 on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Demand.
*U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Boosts Natural Gas Price Forecast by 20% for 2025.
*Pipeline Operator Energy Transfer, LP to Supply Natural Gas Directly to CloudBurst’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center outside of San Marcos, Texas.
*Data Center Power Capacity Demand in Virgina Almost Doubles Says Dominion Energy, Inc.
*France Pledges a Gigawatt of Nuclear Power to Create One of The World’s Largest AI Computing Facilities!
*Activist Investor Elliott Investment Management Coming After British Energy Giant BP, Plc and Oil Refiner Phillips 66.
*Elon Musk Group Submits Unsolicited Bid of $97.4 Billion for Nonprofit That Controls OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT.
*Cisco Share Price Spikes This Week on Upbeat Sales Forecast for the Current Quarter as Companies are Spending on AI Computing Infrastructure!
U.S. Census Bureau – Texas Population, Monthly (12/31/2013 – 12/31/2023)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
U.S. Consumer Price Index – Urban Consumers Month over Month, Seasonally Adjusted (02/16/2020 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index – Daily (01/27/2025 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Daily (12/31/2024 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Quarterly Earnings Analysis by Sector (11/16/2024 – 02/15/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Member Ranked Returns, Best Performing/Worst Performing (12/31/2024 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Generic Gold Spot Price by Ounce – Daily (01/01/2025 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Plains GP Holdings LP – Daily (12/31/2024 – 02/14/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
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