Financial Review

….S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Russell 2000 hit record highs. At this point in the expansion… Cold weather, heating fuel record usage. North Korea, Iran, Pakistan. Minimum wage increases. Air travel is safest. California goes to pot. Amazon goes bananas. Shoppers’ debt. Unexpected threats… Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 01-02-2018 DOW = 104 = 24,824 SPX + 22 = 2695 NAS + 103 = 7006 RUT + 14 = 1550 10 Y + .06 = 2.46% OIL – .04 = 60.38 GOLD + 14.60 = 1318.10   Picking up where we left off last year. The S&P 500, the Nasdaq, and the Russell 2000 closed at record highs. The Dow Industrials were close to a record. Major stock indexes closed out 2017 with their best performances since 2013. Today, Wall Street moved higher. Global stocks moved higher. The dollar dropped. And the VIX dropped under 10. More of the same. Apple, Facebook, Alphabet, and Microsoft pulled the technology index higher, following a 37-percent surge in 2017 that made it the best performing S&P sector. MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gain