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$SLV was up but it reversed, waiting for re-entry.
$TFC | Truist Financial Q1 23 Earnings:
- EPS $1.05 (est $1.14)
- Rev $6.15B (est $6.10B)
- Total Deposits $408.46B (est $410.70B)
- Total Loans & Leases $326.02B, +1.7% (Q/Q)
$TFC | Truist Financial Q1 23 Earnings:
— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) April 20, 2023
- EPS $1.05 (est $1.14)
- Rev $6.15B (est $6.10B)
- Total Deposits $408.46B (est $410.70B)
- Total Loans & Leases $326.02B, +1.7% (Q/Q)
$SLV Hi Ho Silver Away
Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces an Increase in Its Quarterly Cash Dividend
ISSAQUAH, Wash. , April 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: COST) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on Costco common stock and approved a quarterly increase from 90 cents to $1.02 per share, $4.08 on an annualized basis. The dividend is payable May 19, 2023 , to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 5, 2023 .
What Desantis is doing with Disney has nothing to do with grooming children.
I agree it's all bad.
In this case we are in favor of using Government to it's power to do something.
However if an issue comes along that we don't like Government to be involved, what stops them? Selective outrage.
feels like a deal is coming in.
...the sheer number of jobs, and tax revenue connected to Disney World, casts a long shadow in the halls of state government. A 2019 study found Disney dominates the Central Florida tourism industry, according to Oxford Economics, and produced:
$75.2 billion annual economic impact for Central Florida.
463,000 jobs.
$5.8 billion in additional state tax revenue.
The sales tax collected just on the 58 million Disney World tickets sold in 2018 was $409 million. That’s more than what the state will spend this year on school construction and maintenance or the entire Department of Elder Affairs budget.
The numbers give Disney the kind of influence where it does not have to speak when lawmakers talk about taxes, wage and employment issues, or how to pay for roads, schools, and clean water.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/walt-disney-world-remains-florida-biggest-political-power-50-years-later/5919720001/
Ron DeSantis Suffers Major Blow as Key GOP Donor Says Plans to Help Finance DeSantis’s Likely White House Campaign Are “On Hold”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/ron-desantis-suffers-major-blow-as-key-gop-donor-says-plans-to-help-finance-desantiss-likely-white-house-campaign-are-on-hold/
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has had a rough start to the year and the news only got worse on Saturday.
His primary polling numbers have completely cratered following brutal attacks on his record and questionable statements on President Donald Trump’s indictment on bogus “financial fraud” charges. The latest numbers show Trump opening up a 31 point lead over DeSantis.
We reported a few weeks ago that some donors were thinking DeSantis should sit this one out – referring to the 2024 Presidential Election –
Now would-be donors are bailing on DeSantis when he is in dire need of financial assistance for a presidential campaign.
As the Daily Mail reported, Hungarian-born billionaire Thomas Peterffy announced he and his friends are were “keeping their powder dry” on a likely White House run by the Florida governor. Peterffy previously said he was looking forward to backing DeSantis for President.
I have put myself on hold.
I am more reluctant to back him. We are waiting to see who among the primary candidates is most likely to be able to win the general, and then put all of our firepower behind them.
DeSantis is doing what conservatives don't want. Government taking over Private Business.
He got snickered and notice he doesn't say how he will get what he wants.
One of the main reasons Florida doesn't have an income tax is Tourists going to Disney.
Desantis is not showing leadership. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I have a very distant cousin in Tennessee that is a Budweiser distributor. I hate to see him crushed by this fiasco. And I don't see a solution. Budweiser used to do a good job with humor, and is probably a way out, after they fire that marketing idiot. They topped the New Coke disaster.
Dividend announcement this week? Maybe we hear about a membership increase.
If sales remain flat, then they need a boost somewhere else.
Kid Rock never drank Bud Lite
He drinks whisky from the bottle (JD Black Label)
FBI make arrest in Massachusetts after suspected leaker of top secret Pentagon files identified online
Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira has been arrested by the FBI earlier on Thursday
FBI investigators are expected to interview the alleged ringleader of the 'Thug Shaker Central' Discord chat room later
Bombshell arrest follows most embarrassing US intelligence leak for a decade
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969873/Identity-man-responsible-Pentagon-secret-documents-leak.html
Bay Area tech exec, 38, who's been arrested for stabbing to death Cash App founder Bob Lee after argument in car spilled out onto San Francisco street at 2:30am
Bob Lee was stabbed to death on April 4 while in San Fran for a tech conference
Police have arrested Nima Momeni, a tech executive who lives in the Bay Area
READ MORE: Who is Nima Momeni? Suspect lives in smart $703,000 Bay Area condo and is related to top plastic surgeon
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969477/San-Francisco-police-arrest-fellow-tech-exec-murder-Cash-App-founder-Bob-Lee.html
$DAL sold in pre-market at 07:01am, Bought back now.
They missed but the guidance was above estimates.
$DAL buying small into close. Earnings Thursday.
Revenue won't be a problem.
expenses
They warned previously due to pilot contracts.
Oil was down in Q1
Guidance = wild card.
The last time I had a Bud was at a Hooters beauty contest.
Although there were some fake items on display, no one complained.
Sponsor Bud was served in steel bottles, nice and cold.
I too get a headache from too many, but 2-3 is good.
I need to send this to my tech leaders next week.
These certificates are killing me. Stupid concept. Fix it Elon.
I have three that are not working correctly.
Certificates prove the identity of another computer system to talk to yours.
I don't create them, just install them. They are not created a standard way.
Sorry, slight glitch with @SpaceX Starlink. Coming back online now.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2023
Caused by expired ground station cert. We’re scrubbing the system for other single-point vulnerabilities.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2023
George Soros' son has visited White House more than a dozen times since Biden took office, records show
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to
@FoxNews
And they still haven’t invited me
And they still haven’t invited me 😭
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2023
GM, This story is more effective, but didn't make it to the NY Post.
How about we make California one big reservation. Then they can build Casinos for reparations.
Ron DeSantis Dyes Hair, Gets Spray Tan In Preparation For 2024 Presidential Run
Politics · Apr 8, 2021 · BabylonBee.com
https://babylonbee.com/news/ron-desantis-dyes-hair-gets-spray-tan-in-preparation-for-2024-presidential-run
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his brand-new presidential bleached hair and spray tan this week, officially kicking off his campaign to run for president in 2024.
"What are you talking about? This is how I've always looked!" said DeSantis to questioning reporters. "And I don't appreciate it, OK? You are fake news. And frankly, it's disgraceful. Some people might even say you're losers, too. Many people are saying that, anyway. Enemies of the people. Sad."
DeSantis then turned in early to practice his grand accordion hand gestures and say "you are fake news" over and over again to the mirror.
Fans of the governor are saying that he's never looked more presidential than he does now, suggesting he could be a "shoe-in" to win in 2024.
"He's just the candidate we're looking for," said Fudd McGillicutty, Florida man. "For some reason that I can't place my finger on, he makes me feel excitement I haven't felt since 2016!"
DeSantis is currently on the hunt for a mild-mannered Christian governor from the Midwest to serve as his running mate.
Good Friday - your welcome non-Christians
Christian children dread this day, when we are forced to stop playing and have to go to church in the afternoon for the stations of the cross. Even worse if your an alter boy.
Colorado Police Arrest Transgender Person Who Allegedly Planned to Shoot Up Schools
A 19-year-old transgender person who allegedly planned to shoot up schools in and around Colorado Springs, Colorado, was arrested March 31.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/04/06/co-police-arrest-transgender-person-who-allegedly-planned-shoot-schools/
How about a new law, in order to identify as Transgender, you can't own guns. We can start there Democrats. What do you say?
I'm sorry for your loss Flo
Bud Light have 'set their loyal fanbase on fire' after using trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney in latest campaign, PR experts claim - and Kid Rock certainly agrees. Do you?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11942257/Bud-Light-set-loyal-fanbase-fire-using-trans-influencer-Dylan-Mulvaney.html
kid rock video in link
April Sales Results will be released May 3, 2023 01:15 PM PT
Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports March Sales Results
04/05/2023
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ISSAQUAH, Wash., April 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $21.71 billion for the retail month of March, the five weeks ended April 2, 2023, an increase of 0.5 percent from $21.61 billion last year.
For the thirty-one weeks ended April 2, 2023, the Company reported net sales of $137.77 billion, an increase of 6.0 percent from $130.00 billion last year.
Comparable sales were as follows:
5 Weeks 31 Weeks
U.S. -1.5% 5.7%
Canada -2.4% 1.9%
Other International 2.0% 0.9%
Total Company -1.1% 4.5%
E-commerce -12.7% -7.8%
Comparable sales excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange were as follows:
5 Weeks 31 Weeks
U.S. 0.9% 5.2%
Canada 7.4% 8.5%
Other International 7.6% 9.1%
Total Company 2.6% 6.1%
E-commerce -11.6% -6.6%
Additional discussion of these results is available in a pre-recorded message. It can be accessed by dialing 1-866-672-0388 or by visiting investor.costco.com (click on “Events & Presentations”). This message will be available through 5:00 p.m. (PT) on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
it's a show about nothing. 34 felony counts didn't specify what election law was violated.
Bragg intentionally left it out, and admitted it. Eventually he has too.
Alvin Bragg, sometimes called “Fat Alvin”, built his case off of copying and pasting the same charge 34 times around “concealing another crime” in order to make it a felony but didn’t include the crime being covered up in the indictment because “the law does not so require”
Alvin Bragg, sometimes called “Fat Alvin”, built his case off of copying and pasting the same charge 34 times around “concealing another crime” in order to make it a felony but didn’t include the crime being covered up in the indictment because “the law does not so require” pic.twitter.com/6AOvqRkYv2
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 4, 2023
Election day in Chicago
Hoping for Paul Vallas for Mayor
This is hilarious. Title IX is in shambles with Trans imposters. Where has she been?
Indict One—And All?
Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive.
By Victor Davis Hanson
April 2, 2023
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/02/indict-one-and-all/
As we await the publication of all the impending indictments of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Americans are trying to figure out what constitutes an indictable offense for current and retired public officials.
Most legal experts, Left and Right, have noted:
1) Bragg promised in advance that he would try to find a way to indict Trump. His prior boasts are reminiscent of Stalin’s secret police enforcer Lavrentiy Beria’s quip, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” Nancy Pelosi gave the game away, when in her dotage, she muttered that Trump had a right to prove his innocence as if he is presumed guilty.
2) No former president has ever been indicted—and for good reason. Such prosecutions would be viewed as persecutions and render all former presidents veritable targets of every publicity-hungry and politically hostile local, state, or federal prosecutor. They would reduce the presidency to Third World norms. Gratuitously prosecuting former presidents would become a political tool to harm the opposing political party or to tarnish the legacy of a former president.
3) Trump is currently ahead in the polls for the Republican nomination to face Democratic incumbent Biden. And in head-to-head matchups, he outpolls Biden. For a prosecutor of the same party as the current president facing reelection to seek to destroy the viability of a likely opponent is a first in U.S. history. But again, it is now in accordance with Third World norms.
4) At least two left-leaning federal and state prosecutors previously have passed on the same evidence Bragg is now using for his indictments. They have explained that such a prosecution is infeasible because of statutes of limitations, because of a state attorney improperly appropriating the role of a federal prosecutor, and because non-disclosures agreements are a fact of life and not strictly illegal.
5) Bragg’s chief witness Michael Cohen is a felon and confessed liar, with a deep personal hatred of Donald Trump—a fact well known to all potential prosecutors.
6) The current indictment follows a long line of historic harassment of Trump, including the first incidence of two impeachments of a sitting president, the first impeachment trial of a president as a private citizen, and the first FBI armed raid of a retired president’s home, the first instance of an FBI director leaking confidential presidential conversations to the media for the purpose of appointing a special counsel to remove a president.
Such asymmetry also raises questions about the equal application of our laws as they apply to all our other officials, current and out-of-office.
Or, to put it another way: what crime did Trump not do that others did with either impunity or without being arrested? Here is a sample of 20.
1) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by destroying federally subpoenaed emails and devices in order to hide evidence.
2) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by sending classified government communications on her own, through an unsecured home-brewed server.
3) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiring—through three paywalls—a foreign national, who is prohibited from working on presidential campaigns, to compile a dossier to smear her presidential opponent.
4) Trump did not violate federal campaign laws, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiding her payments (as “legal services”) to Christopher Steele through bookkeeping deceptions.
5) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, use a crony to search out a high-paying New York job for a paramour in order to influence her testimony before a special counsel.
6) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, receive a $500,000 “honorarium” for speaking in Moscow while his wife, our secretary of state, approved a longstanding and lucrative desire of the Kremlin for North American uranium to be sold to a Russian consortium.
7) Trump did not, as did Barack Obama, promise Vladimir Putin that he would be “flexible” on “missile defense” if during his own reelection bid Putin in return would give him “space”. That quid pro quo arrangement led to the U.S. abandonment of key joint missile defense systems with Poland and the Czech Republic, and, reciprocally, less than two years later a Russia invasion, mostly unopposed by the United States, of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.
8) Trump did not boast publicly, as did Joe Biden, that he used U.S. foreign aid monies as leverage to have the Ukrainian government fire a prosecutor who may have been looking into the Biden family’s efforts to sell influence to corrupt Ukrainian interests.
9) Trump did not, as the Bidens did, set up a family consortium to leverage monies from Ukraine, Russia, and China, on their shared expectations that he might soon run for and be elected president and become compromised. Trump is not mentioned, as is Joe Biden, in family business communications as a recipient of a 10 percent commission on such payoffs.
10) Trump did not, unlike Joe Biden, remove presidential papers—without any authority to declassify them—and leave them scattered and unsecured in a garage and various residences and offices.
11) Trump did not, as did the FBI, wipe clean subpoenaed mobile phone records.
12) Trump did not, as did interim FBI head Andrew McCabe, admittedly lie under oath on four occasions to federal investigators.
13) Trump did not, as did CIA Director John Brennan, admittedly lie on two occasions while under oath to the U.S. Congress.
14) Trump did not, as did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, admittedly lie on one occasion to the U.S. Congress.
15) Trump did not, as did James Comey, claim amnesia or ignorance 245 times while under oath before the U.S. Congress.
16) Trump did not, as did FBI Director James Comey, summarize a confidential private conversation with a president and then deliberately leak that classified memo to the media for his own agenda of appointing a special counsel to investigate the president—which turned out to be his friend Robert Mueller.
17) Trump did not, as did Robert Mueller, claim ignorance while under oath when asked about the Steele dossier and Fusion GPS, the catalysts for Mueller’s own investigation.
18) Trump did not, as did private citizen and former secretary of state John Kerry, meet clandestinely while out of office with Iranian officials to help them resist current U.S. policy toward Iran—or what the Boston Globe characterized as “unusual shadow diplomacy” to “apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.”
19) Trump did not, as did the FBI and CIA, pay clandestine money to Twitter to monitor and smother news stories deemed unhelpful to their agendas.
20) Trump did not, as did then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whip up a mob at the doors of the Supreme Court by threatening two sitting justices by name to intimidate them concerning an impending judicial ruling: “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
In subsequent months, mobs of protestors swarmed the private homes of these two named justices to influence their decisions, a federal crime that was ignored by Attorney General Merrick Garland, but not by a self-confessed, potential assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh who later turned up in the neighborhood.
What are we to make of these radical disparate applications of laws and protocols? The Left repeatedly breaks laws and long-held customs with impunity by weaponizing federal offices and bureaus, whether defined in the legal sphere by mostly exempting 120 days of mass rioting, looting, arson, mayhem, and lethal violence in the summer of 2020, or procedurally by denying the House minority leader the right to nominate his party members to committees, or ceremonially having the speaker of the House tear up the presidential State-of-the-Union Address on national television.
By any fair application of past tradition and the law, Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached for their deliberate efforts to subvert U.S. immigration law for political purposes. By any just measure, Joe Biden should be the target of a special counsel’s investigation to ascertain how and why the Biden family received hidden funds from foreign governments and whether Biden himself paid taxes on such large sums.
It is the revolutionary Left that attacks institutions deemed unhelpful for its current political agenda—one that rarely warrants 50 percent public approval—whether that effort is defined by threats of ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding two more states, packing the court, or radically changing balloting laws and customs to turn elections into a 70 percent no-show of voters on Election Day.
All of the above is predicated on a simple premise: Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would quickly descend into a spiral of illegality and chaos analogous to what ended the late Roman Republic. That fact is well known to the new hard-left Democratic Party. So it has assumed the role of the spoiled teen who feels he has a blank check of lawless behavior that his parents would not dare emulate, given that for adults to do so would destroy the family.
In other words, the Left is saying to America something along the following lines, “We are so morally superior to you that we can and must employ any means necessary to achieve our unpopular political ends. But you cannot respond in kind or deter us by mimicking our own tactics, because should both parties do so, the resulting disorder would undermine the republic. And that is something you won’t dare do.”
March sales numbers tonight if they follow the reporting pattern.
Dividend announcement next week.
The Arabs certainly know how to celebrate FJB day
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171602038
Manchin is Angry Biden Regime is “Writing Rules and Regulations That are Totally Foreign” to What He Thought the “Inflation Reduction Act” Would Do (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/manchin-is-angry-biden-regime-is-writing-rules-and-regulations-that-are-totally-foreign-to-what-he-thought-the-inflation-reduction-act-would-do-video/
Sucker !!!
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin on Sunday said the Biden Regime is “writing rules and regulations that are totally foreign” to what he thought was in the Marxist Green New Deal dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”
Manchin signed the “Inflation Reduction Act” and now he’s claiming the Biden Regime is not adhering to the original legislation.
Last July Manchin surprised Washington DC elites and the mainstream chattering class when he announced his support for Joe Biden’s green new deal funded by nearly $800 billion in new tax hikes.
The Green New Deal will crush the coal and energy sector in his home state of West Virginia. But it will make the windmill manufacturers in China rich.
Manchin struck a deal with Schumer to pass the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” through reconciliation (no Republicans needed to pass the bill).
Joe Manchin last July defended his deal with Schumer and absurdly claimed Biden’s ‘inflation reduction act’ lowers energy costs and doesn’t raise taxes.
Now he’s acting surprised that the Biden Regime isn’t ‘adhering to the legislation.’
'The weirdest thing I've ever seen': Bud Light sparks backlash after partnering with controversial trans poster girl Dylan Mulvaney - and even prints her face on a beer can
Dylan Mulvaney revealed her partnership with Bud Light on Instagram during the beer company's promotional event for the NCAA March Madness tournament
The influencer shared a video of a Bud Light can with her face printed on it to mark her first year of being openly transgender
Mulvaney announcement sparked backlash on social media with Twitter users describing the ad campaign as 'gender propaganda'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11931823/Bud-Light-sparks-backlash-partnering-trans-poster-girl-Dylan-Mulvaney.html
Better stock up on Yuengling. There could be a supply shortage.
In the latest in a long series of slaps on Biden's face, on Sunday OPEC+ unexpectedly announced an oil production reduction of over 1 million barrels per day, limiting output from May. Saudi Arabia spearheaded the cartel's efforts by committing to a 500,000-barrel reduction of its own production.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, a Ministry of Energy official stated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will "implement a voluntary cut of 500 thousand barrels per day from May till the end of 2023."
The cut will be in coordination with other OPEC and non-OPEC participating countries in the declaration of cooperation, the state-run media outlet continued.
"This voluntary cut is in addition to the reduction in production agreed at the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting on October 5, 2022," the paper pointed out.
Other members, such as Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Algeria, also joined in the reduction efforts.
Previously, Russia had pledged to cut its crude-only output by 500,000 barrels per day in March in response to Western sanctions, including price caps on its oil and petroleum production, and to keep those curbs in place through June, but has now extended its pledged cuts through the end of the year
Here are the reductions per country:
*SAUDI ARABIA TO CUT OIL OUTPUT BY 500,000 BARRELS/DAY FROM MAY
*KUWAIT TO VOLUNTARY CUT OIL PRODUCTION BY 128,000 BARRELS/DAY
*UAE TO REDUCE OIL PRODUCTION BY 144,000 BARRELS/DAY FROM MAY
*KAZAKHSTAN TO CONTRIBUTE 78K B/D TO OPEC+ OUTPUT CUT: MINISTRY
*IRAQ TO CUT 211,000 B/D OF OIL OUTPUT FROM MAY: MINISTRY
*ALGERIA TO CUT 48K B/D OF OIL OUTPUT FROM MAY TO END 2023: APS
*OMAN TO CONTRIBUTE 40K B/D TO OPEC+ PRODUCTION CUT: DELEGATE
Russia commented on the announcement of production cuts:
"Today the global oil market is going through a period of high volatility and unpredictability due to the ongoing banking crisis in the US and Europe, global economic uncertainty, and unpredictable and short-sighted energy policy decisions.
Saudis said:
"Ministry of Energy official emphasized that this is a precautionary measure aimed at supporting the stability of the oil market," SPA reports
Brent futures are expected to rise this evening in response to today's news. Prices have been range bound between $86-$73 a barrel for much of 2023.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/saudi-arabia-makes-voluntary-cut-500000-barrels-day-may