Financial Review

…Record highs for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq. Job openings drop. No patch for Meltdown & Spectre. Target on target. No Bitcoin ETF. A brief history of government shutdown. Arpaio’s back. Here comes the rain. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 01-09-2018 DOW + 102 = 25,385 SPX + 3 = 2751 NAS + 6 = 7163 RUT – 1 = 1560 10 Y + .07 = 2.55% OIL + 1.21 = 62.94 GOLD – 6.30 = 1314.40   Record highs for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq. The S&P 500 has started the new year with a string of 6 record highs – the best start to a new year since 1964. The index has gone 387 sessions without a 5% drawdown, the second-longest stretch in the history of the index; the longest streak is 394 days…, so.   Job openings fell for a second straight month in November, with declines in the manufacturing and real estate sectors. The monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, released by the Labor Department, also found that layoffs dropped to a six-month low. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, fell by 46,000 to a sea