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Headline Round Up!
*Texas!
– Apple Announces Another $100 Billion in U.S. Investment Bringing the Total to $600 Billion in U.S. Investment Over The Next Four Years! Many Texas Onshoring Activities Announced Including a Second Campus Expansion in Austin!
– New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Taps Policy Leader & Former Texas Workforce Commission Chairman, Bryan Daniel, as President of the Newly Created NYSE Texas Headquartered in Dallas!
– Energy Transfer Building a $5.3 Billion Pipeline From Texas to Arizona!
– Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Currently Projected to Have Over 20% Growth in Electricity Sales By End of 2026.
*Trump Eyes 100% Microchip Tariffs, But Exempting Firms Investing in the U.S.
*India’s Tariff Goes From 25% to 50% August 27th.
*New Trump Pharma and Microchip Tariffs Coming in the “Next Week or So”?
*Trump Urges “Conflicted” Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, to Resign.
*Wall Street Journal: China Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies.
*Trump to Name a New Federal Reserve Governor and New Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Head Coming in Days.
*Wall Street Warnings of Equity Market Drop?
*U.S. Trade Gap Narrows to Tightest Since 2023 on Drop in Imports.
*Q2 U.S. Labor Productivity Increased With Higher Profits & Lower Inflation?
*Feel The Power: Brookfield Buys 20% Stake in Duke Energy’s Florida Utility in $6 Billion All Cash Deal!
*Diamondback CEO, Kaes Van’t Hof, Announced Cuts in Capital Spending on Warnings of a Bearish Influx of Crude Supplies to the Global Markets in Coming Months. Cited Projected Increase in Global Oil Supply as Reasoning to “Hold Oil Volumes Flat While Cutting” Spending.
*U.S. Will Need to Drastically Ramp Up Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Output for Trade Deals if Current Pledges Hold.
*Williams Cos. CEO, Chad Zamarin, Sees LNG Taking Up More Than 25% of U.S. Gas Market in the Next Decade.
*Cheniere Signs Long Term LNG Deal with Japanese Energy Firm Jera Running from 2029 – 2050!
*Palantir Technology, Inc. Stock Jumps After Record Quarterly Sales Growth in Q2.
*”Ugly Shoemaker” Crocs, Inc. Stock Hit by 15% After Q3 Forecast Mentions Tariff Zapped Sales Decline & Consumer Pressures.
*UBER Buyback of $20 Billion Announced After Better Than Expected Q3 Forecast.
*Trump Attacks Escalating! Wind and Solar Industries Hit with Trump Administration Permitting Reviews While Massive Idaho Wind Farm Approval Yanked?
*Microsoft Becomes AI (Artificial Intelligence) Favorite, But Its Core Businesses Booming Too!
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) Trust – Intraday Candle Chart (08/01/2025 – 08/04/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 – Daily (12/31/2024 – 08/08/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
S&P 500 Index – Member Ranked Returns 10 Best Performing & 10 Worst Performing (05/08/2025 – 08/08/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
S&P 500 Index – Quarterly Earnings Analysis by Sector (05/16/2025 – 08/15/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
S&P 500 Index – Price Earnings Ratio, Monthly (08/16/1995 – 08/08/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow Real GDP Estimate for 2025 Q3 (08/07/2025)
– Courtesy of The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) Trust – Daily (12/31/2024 – 08/08/2025)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
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