Notes You Need for December 4: Auto sales, restaurant stocks, CVS, Macao gaming, U.S. oil rig count

Notes You Need for December 4: Auto sales, restaurant stocks, CVS, Macao gaming, U.S. oil rig count

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A typical blog post resembles this one from today: “11:20 a.m.: Wall Street isn’t nearly so positive on CVS Health’s  (CVS) $69 billion bid to acquire Aetna (AET) now that it has seen how the company plans to pay for the buy. CVS plans to issue $44.8 billion in new debt and $21 billion in new equity in addition to using $4.1 billion of cash on hand. Shares of CVS are down 5.2%.”

Notes You Need for December 4: Auto sales, restaurant stocks, CVS, Macao gaming, U.S. oil rig count

Notes You Need for October 30: Rig count, butter at a global high, gaming stocks, inflation, interest rate odds, gold, copper

In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. This mini-blog includes items like this from today: “11:40 a.m.: The PCE Price Index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation rise by 0.4% in September and is now up 1.6% year over year. In August the index was ahead 1.4% year over year. The core index, which excludes food and energy, was uo 1.3% year over year. Nothing here to change the odds on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates at its December 13 meeting.”