Notes You Need for September 11: Rig count, Whole Foods traffic, opioids, North Korea

Notes You Need for September 11: Rig count, Whole Foods traffic, opioids, North Korea

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. I launched this new feature on JubakAM.com on December 1. For example, 10:20 a.m.: On Friday Baker Hughes reported that the total of working drilling rigs in the United States had climbed one to 944 for the week. That follows on an increase of three in the rig total last week.

Notes You Need for September 11: Rig count, Whole Foods traffic, opioids, North Korea

Notes You Need for August 24: Hurricane Harvey, Apple TV, Fed balance sheet, Amazon cuts Whole Food prices, natural gas

Times listed are when I wrote the specific post (New York time.)

10:20 a.m.: The worst storm to hit the oil refineries on the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Wilma in 2005 is on a track to come ashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday. Hurricane Harvey with its 85 mile an hour winds and drenching rain is likely to disrupt gasoline production and curtail oil and natural gas demand. U.S. crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate closed down 1.63% today. Gasoline, on the other hand, rose 2.35% on anticipation that the storm will curtail supply. 10:40 a.m.: The usual reliable but unnamed sources have said that in September Apple (AAPL) will announce a new Apple TV set-top box that will include a faster processor capable of streaming higher-resolution 4K video. Apple is also said to be testing an updated version of its TV app that can aggregate programming from apps that already offer live streaming.