Financial Review

….Trump’s first year in stocks, good but not great. Waiting on the government shutdown – what to expect. 10-year yields at 4 year high. Consumer sentiment drops. Amazon hikes for prime. General Electric demotion. IEA says US is now a petrostate. SEC wary of bitcoin. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 01-19-2018   DOW + 53 = 26,071 SPX + 12 = 2810 NAS + 40 = 7336 RUT + 20 = 1597 10 Y + .03 = 2.64 OIL – .39 = 63.56 GOLD + 4.20 = 1331.60   A late rally lifted stocks into positive territory in the final hour or so of trade. For the week, the Dow rose 1.04 percent, the S&P 500 added 0.86 percent and the Nasdaq gained 1.04 percent.   The stock market has rallied during Trump’s first year in the White House, with the S&P 500 up nearly 24%. But here’s a surprise: It did even better during President Obama’s first year, rising 35.3%. And how did US markets stack up against the rest of the world. Based upon returns in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Investor (VTSMX) and the Vanguard Total International Stock Mar