…..Dow breaks losing streak. Consumer confidence bumps on labor strength. Goods deficit falls. Case Shiller home sales rise. ACA death by a thousand cuts. Repealing Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces. Coal? Brilliant. Elon Musk’s neural lace. Brexit tomorrow. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 03-28-2017 DOW + 150 = 20,701 SPX + 16 = 2358 NAS + 34 = 5875 RUT + 9 = 1367 10Y + .04 = 2.41% OIL + .71 = 48.44 GOLD – 2.50 = 1252.30 Yesterday, we noted that the Dow Industrial Average had been down for 8 straight sessions – the longest losing streak since 2011. We also noted that the market seemed to be taking a break or a pause; the losses during that time were not big enough to reverse the uptrend. Sure enough, the uptrend resumed today. Even though stocks wobbled out of the opening gate, they gained their footing with the help of some good economic reports.   Consumer confidence surged to a more than 16-year high in March. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index jumped 9.5 points to 125.6 this month, the highest reading since December 2000. Consumers’ assessment of both current business and labor market conditions improved sharply in March. They also anticipated an increase in their incomes. The survey’s so-called labor market differential, derived from data about respondents who think jobs are hard to get and those who think jobs are plentiful, was the strongest since 2001. When consumers feel good about their jobs or ...