….Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs. Retail sales slip. Industrial production down. Oracle disappoints. Equifax continues to disappoint and outrage. Dangerous airline seats. Goodbye, Yellow Pages. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 09-15-2017   DOW + 64 = 22,268 SPX + 4 = 2500 NAS + 19 = 6448 RUT + 6 = 1431 10 Y +0.005 = 2.20% OIL – .06 = 49.83 GOLD – 9.80 = 1320.20   The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed above 2,500 for the first time. The S&P is up 12% since the start of the year. The Dow Industrials posted their fourth consecutive record high close. The Nasdaq hit an intraday high but trended down to miss a record close. The Dow gained 2.2% for the week, the best weekly gain since December 9. The S&P was up 1.5% for the week. The Nasdaq registered a weekly advance of 1.4%.   Exactly nine years ago, on September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers became the largest bankruptcy in US history.   For the second time in less than a month, Pyongyang has fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan, prompting the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting for today. Arms race? South Korea responded by conducting live fire drills that mimicked attacking Pyongyang’s launch site, and completed its own ballistic missile test into the sea.  Wall Street seems inured.   Prime Minister Theresa May announced the U.K. terror threat level has been raised to critical, its highest level, as police hunt ...