Notes You Need for December 6: Amazon shipping delays, home buyers aging, truck orders, AI, Apple 2020 products, Macao gaming, GE’s penny dividend, Qualcomm fine

Notes You Need for January 2: Macao gaming, USB, natural gas, gold, WFT

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 item resembles this from today: “10:40 a.m.: Ahead of earnings Barclays raised its target on U.S. Bancorp (USB) to $65 from $60. Stock was trading at $53.38 at the open. Before Christmas, December 17, to be precise UBS downgraded the bank stock to neutral from buy (while raising its target price to $60 from $58.) The downgrade reflects a shift to favor banks with a higher exposure to tax cuts in the recently passed tax bill.”

Notes You Need for December 6: Amazon shipping delays, home buyers aging, truck orders, AI, Apple 2020 products, Macao gaming, GE’s penny dividend, Qualcomm fine

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%.”