Financial Review

…Stocks bounce back (somewhat). Thus spake Clarida. Amazon looks at a weak holiday season. Alphabet stumbles. Intel beats. Twitter loses users that did not exist. AK Steel hurt by tariffs. Saudis get away with murder. Simultaneous former presidential assassination attempts. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 10-25-2018 DOW + 401 = 24,984 SPX + 49 = 2705 NAS + 209 = 7318 RUT + 31 = 1500 10 Y + .01 = 3.14% OIL + .16 = 66.98 GOLD – 1.60 = 1232.80   New Federal Reserve vice chair Richard Clarida on Thursday said he’d support “some further” increase in interest rates as the best way to nurse the current U.S. recovery along while guarding against any jump in inflation. In his debut speech as the Fed’s second in command and the most recent appointee by President Donald Trump, Clarida said the economy showed signs of continuing to motor along, making it appropriate to continue to gradually raise interest rates that remain “accommodative,” or encouraging of spending and investment.   Clarida’s speech puts him square