Financial Review

…Stocks drop. Weak bond sale. Staring down 3%. Watching the Fed. Walmart online disappoints. Amazon lurks. Albertsons buys (a moat) Rite Aid. Qualcomm sweetens NXP bid. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 02-20-2018   DOW – 254 = 24,964 SPX – 15 = 2716 NAS – 5 = 7234 RUT – 13 = 1529 10 Y + .02 = 2.89% OIL + .09 = 61.77 GOLD – 17.30 = 1329.70   The Dow and S&P 500 snapped a six-session winning streak. The Dow dropped below 25,000; at the low point of the session, the Dow was down about 335 points. The Nasdaq tried to turn positive in the final half hour, but no. And the S&P 500 dropped near levels of support and bounced, but not enough bounce to turn positive.   The U.S. Treasury today sold $179 billion of bills at yields unseen since 2008 as it works to rebuild its cash balance with record-sized sales of short-term securities. The government auctioned $51 billion of three-month bills at a yield of 1.64 percent, 6 basis points more than similar-tenor notes sold on Feb. 12, while $45 billion of six-month debt