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The Beige Book is out this morning.
I'll send you a link.
Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO
PUBLISHED TUE, SEP 5 20236:58 AM EDTUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
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Chip design firm Arm on Tuesday submitted an updated filing for its upcoming blockbuster initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, setting a price range between $47 and $51.
Only 9.4% of Arm’s shares will be freely traded on the NYSE.
Arm was previously dually listed in London and New York, before SoftBank acquired it for $32 billion in 2016.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/chip-design-firm-arm-sets-share-price-between-47-and-51-for-blockbuster-us-ipo.html
I watched the CO TCU game. Last team to score won.
We're heading to Carolina Beach soon for a week. The doctors don't want to see me for a year.
GM ~~~ watched a lot during storms on Topsail “live cam” ! Some wild surf and sky! Glad you missed bad stuff !
The Kid on a roll already and only wk. 1 !
The Carolina beaches are taking a beating from the storm this morning. 4 hours inland it's a beautiful sunny day with temps in the 70 seventies.
Just a lot of flooding but not much wind damage and they should be open for business by the weekend.
Deere Dividend History.
Date Dividends
Sep 29, 2023 1.35 dividend
Jun 29, 2023 1.25 Dividend
Mar 30, 2023 1.25 Dividend
Dec 29, 2022 1.2 Dividend
Sep 29, 2022 1.13 Dividend
Jun 29, 2022 1.13 Dividend
Mar 30, 2022 1.05 Dividend
Dec 30, 2021 1.05 Dividend
Sep 29, 2021 1.05 Dividend
Jun 29, 2021 0.90 Dividend
Mar 30, 2021 0.90 Dividend
Dec 30, 2020 0.76 Dividend
Sep 29, 2020 0.76 Dividend
Jun 29, 2020 0.76 Dividend
Mar 30, 2020 0.76 Dividend
Dec 30, 2019 0.76 Dividend
Sep 27, 2019 0.76 Dividend
Jun 27, 2019 0.76 Dividend
Mar 28, 2019 0.76 Dividend
Dec 28, 2018 0.76 Dividend
Sep 27, 2018 0.69 Dividend
Won't even come close. Just some rain.
ready to go !!! GL w/ IDALIA !!!
Here you go.
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$AUVI and $WE both very interesting
I like dividend paying stocks. He can't take that $150B to the grave with him.
In other news, the Big 10 is now 18 and the Pac 12 is 4. No wonder kids are failing at math.
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And in your neck of the woods you don't spell Tigers as Tigres. Sorry I don't want one of those jerseys.
LOL ~~~ greed kills !!
Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings rise nearly 7%, cash pile approaches $150 billion
PUBLISHED SAT, AUG 5 20238:17 AM EDTUPDATED AN HOUR AGO
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Yun Li
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/05/berkshire-hathaway-brk-earnings-q2-2023.html
Sorry no dividend for you.
Inside the park or walk off ?
HAGO !!!
That's a new one to me but I added it to my watch list.
If I lived in AZ I'd have solar panels all over my roof. I watch Ask This Old House and they did a segment on a filament that goes on windows that generate electricity.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/building-window-solutions-us/solutions/energy/
The tech is several years away.
I hit a HR with CAT Ford continues to piss me off.
No they do not!
PLTR —— watch this at all???
Does he have solar panels on the house? I'd consider moving!
Word of the month: fuckinghot !
High school friend in Phoenix….. has been in house (AC) for 22 days! Pathetic!!
Yesterday the temps finally hit over 100 here. I think the electric company throttled back the juice since around 2PM the A/C had issues keeping up the temp I had set.
Thank goodness for remote starters on cars. I use an oven mitt until the steering wheel cools down.
Stay cool.
Ford raises full-year guidance after solid earnings beat
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 27 202312:00 PM EDTUPDATED 8 MIN AGO
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Michael Wayland
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Ford Motor on Thursday raised its 2023 guidance after second-quarter earnings significantly beat Wall Street expectations, boosted by strong pricing and demand for the automaker’s traditional vehicles.
Ford increased its full-year adjusted earnings forecast to a range of between $11 billion and $12 billion, up from a prior forecast $9 billion and $11 billion.
EV adoption, however, is taking place more slowly than the company expected, in part because of higher costs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/ford-motor-f-earnings-q2-2023.html
Got an in-depth report from Chicago on Portillos. Tasty food and crowded. But, IMO, that's not reason to buy the stock. For one thing, PTLO is way too small to make it into my bulletproof portfolio. Market cap $1.2b and no dividend. The restaurant business is brutal nowadays.
UPS, Teamsters reach labor deal to avoid strike
PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 25 202311:54 AM EDTUPDATED 32 MIN AGO
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Leslie Josephs
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UPS and the Teamsters said they reached a tentative deal on a new contract.
The labor agreement is still subject to a ratification vote by the more than 300,000 workers.
The preliminary deal includes wage increases for both full- and part-time workers.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/ups-teamsters-reach-contract-to-avoid-strike-union-says.html
They had no choice but to meet the union demands.
Several years ago I knew a kid who had a brutal scar on one of his legs. I asked him about it and he said his dad had ran over his leg with the lawn mower.
He said he was lucky since the docs managed to save his leg.
Yikes. "California woman lying in grass killed by Deere lawnmower, a advocates, family question police"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/19/christine-chavez-lawnmower-killing-modesto-concerns/70433060007/
It's all about logistics. I shipped something via USPS at Xmas for next day delivery. It took 3 days to get delivered and I ended up getting my money back.
"I was trading on inside information. The kid's hours kept going up and up."
LOL. Sounds like something I'd do. But remember the post office. We mostly shipped and received by UPS years ago and when there was some kind of strike about 20 years ago we largely switched to the USPS which was sometimes even cheaper. I vaguely remember lugging packages to the post office which was luckily very close-by.
As our internet sales took off around 2000, we used the mail more and more.
I was trading on inside information. The kid's hours kept going up and up.
The impending UPS strike has certainly helped FDX since there have been many new customers for their Ground Services.
My Chewy order from yesterday just arrived. UPS can't even match FDX's service.
BTW, stupendous on FDX soaring 51% YTD.
The F-150 Lightning was overpriced to begin with compared to the gas models. One would think these clowns running Ford would figure it out by now.
Jeesh, market's going wild. Just got my first ever >$500 stock, Cintas, which I've owned for decades. Had plenty of $300 and $400 stocks, but $500 was new for me. As usual my portfolio is handled with minimal -- almost nonexistent -- trading for tax advantages.
Speaking of $400 stocks, my (and BNB's) new Deere shares are at $427.
Ford’s U.S. sales jump 9.9% on big gains for its F-Series trucks
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 6 20239:28 AM EDTUPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
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Michael Wayland
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John Rosevear
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Ford Motor’s second-quarter sales increased 9.9% from a year earlier, spurred by significant sales gains of its F-Series trucks.
The Detroit automaker Thursday reported sales of 531,662 vehicles from April through June, up from subdued results a year ago.
Ford’s EV sales during the quarter declined 2.8%, to 14,843 vehicles, as supplies of the Mach-E were short.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/fords-second-quarter-us-sales-jump.html
Yes they pay exceptionally well I can assure you. I'm moving about $2K a month over to Fidelity for the kid since he has no time to spend it as you say, WORK HARD / PAID WELL !
I got to know this poster who worked part time for FDX in Colorado when he was semi-retired and I also introduced him to the kid.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profilea.aspx?user=283274
Sadly he came down with cancer and passed away. My son got his hub to send him some Fedex polo shirts before he passed and they started chatting over the phone.
Fedex paid all of his medical expenses for him even though he was part time.
He always wanted the T-Bird that is in his profile and got it just before he passed.
This car was his pride and joy. What a sweet ride for a summer day.
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GM ~~~ looks as though UPS call pretty much spot on !
An old USMC buddy worked for FedEx and filled me in on a lot of their +/- stuff. He always said they PAID very well....but, also that they really worked everyone hard. WORK HARD / PAID WELL !
He retired from FedEx ( Indianapolis market ) several years ago.....more sadly, he passed away not too long after retirement....prostate cancer ! Great guy !!!
HAGO !!
I expect UPS will cave.
United Parcel Service
— The package delivery company’s shares lost 2% as negotiations with the Teamsters union failed to make progress. The union said in a statement Wednesday that talks had collapsed after UPS “walked away” from negotiations. UPS responded that it had not walked away from negotiations and said it was encouraging the union to return to the table. The current contract, which covers about 340,000 workers, will expire at the end of July.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-midday-meta-platforms-coinbase-ups-general-motors-more.html
Fed Ex does not have a union but they pay their employees well.
F just topped $15.
I love people who don't understand the company they are posting about.
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I'm pretty pleased with what he is doing and I'm paying only 1% for all the accounts.
It's a far cry from where I was a year ago with Gate City.
As for market timing I moved everything in the wife's 401K to Vanguard Windsor II Admiral. VWNAX
I'm a genius. lol.
LOL ~~~~ “only thing I like better than my money…… is YOUR money” !
I met with my broker at Fidelity yesterday. I think they are over paying him.
https://www.flowauto.com/Cars/Details/Certified/669578?
No, it wouldn't be. But it'd be interesting to see if they'd managed to recreate the atmosphere to some extent.
And you'd probably get a few free drinks.
I printed off the article for him and told him here is where your grandfather worked for 20 plus years.
He has a picture of my dad and Yogi in his room.
Perhaps I will but it will not be the same.
Great story… and, little doubt very precious memories! I trust you’ve imbedded all with SJr. !
U2 Daddy-O !!
That's an interesting story. You should pay a visit to Albert's next time you're in New York.
Where I spent my mis-spent youth. The article brings back fond memories of the years my dad worked for Toots and the people I met along the way.
Red Smith was my hero. With program and pencil in hand he taught me how to keep score. Mickey and Whitey were my idols. DiMaggio you could never go near as he sat in the back eating alone after he retired.
DiMaggio, Ali and Red Smith: How tales from a legendary Manhattan bar inspired a new space
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NEW YORK — Terence Smith already was well acquainted with the preeminent saloon in Manhattan by the time he started nudging through the revolving doors of Toots Shor’s restaurant on his own accord in his late teens and early 20s. This was where Smith’s father, legendary sportswriter Red Smith, brought him and his family throughout the 1950s, often rubbing shoulders with the many notable patrons.
“Sports figures, ballplayers, politicians, mobsters, hacks, actors who would come from Broadway after 11 at night after being in a show, actresses … all kinds of people,” Smith recalled. “It was a see-and-be-seen place and very exciting to somebody my age.”
The namesake and proprietor, Bernard “Toots” Shor, had an affectionate personality and larger-than-life comportment that was primarily why so many characters were drawn to his establishment. It kept people coming back — sometimes with equally famous friends.
Baseball stars and boxers, in particular, were “on pedestals,” Smith, 84, recalled. So were those in their general orbit, like the media representatives who covered them. While that had benefits, sometimes it was a slight problem for Smith, essentially a regular by the time he reached the then-legal drinking age of 18.
“One peril (of going to the bar alone) was if Howard Cosell was there and spotted me, he would immediately demand a ride home,” said Smith, who lived in Stamford, Conn., but would drive the celebrated broadcaster to his home in Pound Ridge, N.Y. “Howard didn’t drive and didn’t have a driver, so I’d get an hour-plus of Howard Cosell in my right ear as I drove him home.”
Smith’s father was among Shor’s most prized clients, and the adulation was mutual. Red once wrote Toots’ “capacity for affection was limitless and his sentimentality unabashed.” One routine Terence vividly recalled is anytime there was a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden — then located near the bar on Eighth Avenue and the center of the boxing universe — the Smiths would have dinner at the Player’s Club in Gramercy (where Red was a member), get to the Garden early and stay late as the family patriarch would wrap up his column.
From there, they’d return to Toots Shor’s.
“You’d see half the people who were at the fight at Toots’,” Terence said. “It would be packed well into the night.”
Red, who died in 1982, was a Pulitzer Prize winner whose career spanned more than five decades. The Red Smith Award given by the Associated Press Sports Editors is regarded as the nation’s highest sports journalism honor.) He worked in St. Louis and Philadelphia before making his way to New York in 1945, where he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune and, later, The New York Times. Terence, an accomplished journalist in his own right who won multiple Emmy awards and worked for The New York Times, CBS News and PBS, among others, penned a book on his own career called “Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter’s Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House.”
After gaining a certain amount of acclaim with columns about the Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, etc., Red became close with Shor, who quickly recognized a shining star when he saw one. Anytime the family walked in, they all were shuffled personally by Shor to Table No. 1, located just to the left of the circular bar that was the heartbeat of the space.
“That was sort of a prestigious place,” Terence said. “My father would walk in, and Toots would embrace him, give him a giant hug, and say, ‘Hiya, crumbum.’ That was his most affectionate address. And he would throw out the insults as fast as he could. Pop loved it.”
There also was the time when Terence and his sister, Kit, witnessed as grand an entrance possible in 1950s New York.
“The revolving door swung open and spit out Joe DiMaggio in a suit and tie and an almost ankle-length vicuña coat. It was the most beautiful thing you ever saw,” Smith said. “And on his left arm: Marilyn Monroe in a mink, his wife at the time. It was though there was a glow around them.
“This was glamor; the very definition of glamor.”
Don Ameche, Toots Shor, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Gleason, and Marilyn Monroe celebrating Gleason's birthday at Shor's saloon in Manhattan – February 26, 1955.#HBD #JackieGleason pic.twitter.com/GdIY1Vv4m2
— Bubble Gum Sportz (@VinSportsNutz) February 26, 2018
Terence is now retired and living in Annapolis, Md., spending sunny days taking his sailboat on the waters of Chesapeake Bay. David Mohally was on that boat one day with mutual friends.
Mohally, from Cork, Ireland, is a rabid sports fan; one of his business partners, Ruairi Curtin, also from Cork, described him as someone who would “watch two flies running up the wall.”
He’s particularly interested in boxing, though, and his ears immediately perked up when Smith spoke about his father’s complicated relationship with Muhammad Ali. Red Smith, among other sportswriters at the time, was particularly critical of Ali’s affiliation with the Nation of Islam in the 1960s.
When Ali became a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and refused the draft, in the midst of an era when race relations were at the forefront of many of society’s ills, Smith didn’t hide his disdain, referring to him as one of the “unwashed punks” who refused to serve. According to Terence, it was Ali’s “braggadocio” more than anything that didn’t sit well with his father — and others — at the time.
Only later in both of their careers did Smith acknowledge the greatness of Ali, in and out of the ring.
“The relationship evolved into one of great respect and admiration, both of the fighter and the figure,” Terence said.
Mohally ate it up, pumping Terence for details.
“I was like … holy s—,” Mohally said.
Muhammad Ali press conference at Toots Shor, New York, 1965. #MuhammadAli #GOAT #Icon #NewYork pic.twitter.com/6yaSmXTAKW
— Muhammad Ali (@MuhammadAli) July 19, 2021
What Smith didn’t know while relaying his stories from Manhattan’s golden era is that Mohally and Curtin — along with a third partner, Mark Gibson — were looking for some inspiration for an upcoming venture. They run a company called Sleeping Giant, which began with a bar in the East Village in 2004 called Bua, where they “learned on the job, then got enough money to open the next one and the next one and the next one,” Mohally said. Curtin and Mohally have been friends since they were 12 years old growing up in Cork; Gibson met Curtin when they were in college in Dublin.
Sleeping Giant launched a number of successful bars after Bua — including The Spaniard in the West Village and The Penrose on the Upper East Side — but “nothing between 14th Street and 80th Street,” Mohally said. Albert’s in Midtown Manhattan, on 41st and Lexington and a short walk from Grand Central Terminal, would be their eighth bar.
After meeting Smith, Mohally repeated some of those tales about Toots Shor’s to Curtin. Those stories got the creative juices flowing for their new place in Midtown.
“We just kind of went into a rabbit hole,” Curtin said.
Their first decision was an easy one: recreate the circular bar. No easy task, as the space they took over featured a bar that ran along the back and side walls. The logistics of moving it to the middle of the room were complicated, particularly concerning the plumbing.
But the vision was clear, and that was important to the partners, whose inspiration for The Penrose, for example, was an old train station in their hometown in Ireland. Their other bars had different inspirations and themes, too.
“Really, it was a hook and a tie to the neighborhood that had been lost over time,” Curtin said. “(The 1950s) is 70 years ago at this point, and (Midtown Manhattan) is a bar and restaurant desert. There’s very little around these parts. So really, we’re trying to kind of bring back some of the former glory to a neighborhood that once was, and is not it right now.”
Mohally added: “In (Terence) describing Toots Shor’s to us, the whole center bar element to it (was) just a pure social scene, which left Midtown many decades ago, really. We can kind of treat Midtown as a neighborhood and just build us into a social place where we can attract not necessarily celebrities, but just get that vibe going that people always know they can come in here, and it’s going to be a social scene and they can meet people. The center bar is a big element to that.”
The walls of Albert’s are littered with photos of old New York and menus from some of the classic restaurants that don’t exist anymore. The menu for Toots Shor’s can be found near the front left, while photos of Shor are in the back right, including one extraordinary group shot with several major-league Hall of Famers taken in February 1951.
A photo featuring Bernard “Toots” Shor and multiple Major League Baseball stars from 1951. (Courtesy of Kevin Kurz)
But something else from Smith’s descriptions of Toots Shor’s piqued the interest of Curtin. The 1950s were the days not of the coat check, but of the hat check. So, immediately upon entering their new bar is a “hat check” — to the right, with an attendant.
“Every single detail in here is inspired by that era and the bars of the time,” Curtin said. “Images and menus that we found through those times, they all came together, and what bubbled up was Albert’s.”
When the original Toots Shor’s — there were three iterations of the place — closed and was torn down in 1959 to make way for a new hotel, it was enough of a tragedy for Red Smith that he had to be there to witness the destruction and, more importantly, pay homage.
He and some colleagues actually sat in the cab of the crane that dropped the ball, painted to look like a giant baseball, with a drink in tow.
“My father and others went there; it was like 11 o’clock in the morning,” Terence recalled. “They all had scotch and soda in hand, and they would toast the place and send the wrecking ball into the wall. They would raise a glass and swing the ball, raise a glass and swing the ball. It didn’t take long. The whole damn building was down in two hours.”
Twenty years later, the commissioners of all four major North American sports were in attendance at a ceremony where a plaque was unveiled in 1979, two years after Shor’s death.
Mohally and Curtin aren’t so naive as to think they can exactly mimic what the Smiths, both father and son, experienced in the 1950s, whether that be at Toots Shor’s or any of the other surrounding establishments. But they also want to make sure that Albert’s doesn’t become just another run-of-the-mill sports bar. As Midtown has rebounded in recent months, with office buildings beginning to fill up again, the crowds at Albert’s have grown, particularly during the week at the close of business.
The circular bar is often two or three people deep on its busiest days, despite the place only opening in March. While the distractions of text messages and social media will divert some people’s attention from the person seated next to them, and with the bar yet to be visited by the modern-day equivalents of DiMaggio, Ali, Cosell and Monroe, the co-owners have Terence Smith to thank for the way their new space has started to take off.
The line from Toots Shor’s to Albert’s is at least slightly visible.
“(Smith) wasn’t trying to give us any form of inspiration. Just that conversation alone got the mind going,” Mohally said. “Why not recreate that?”
https://theathletic.com/4572987/2023/06/16/dimaggio-ali-and-red-smith-tales-from-a-legendary-manhattan-bar-inspires-new-space/?source=nyt&access_token=11932965
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