…Stocks crash, go figure. PPI rises. Inventories up. CVS-Aetna done deal. Wells Fargo losing customers. Sears in the dustbin of history. Hurricane Michael. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 10-10-2018 DOW – 831 = 25,598 SPX – 94 = 2785 NAS – 315 = 7422 RUT – 46 = 1575 10 Y + .02 = 3.22% OIL – 2.33 = 72.63 GOLD + 5.30 = 1195.40   Stocks crashed today. I know an 831-point decline works out to a 3.15% decline, whereas back in October 1987, a 508-point decline equated to a 22% drop. Still, today was a crash. The S&P lost 3.29%; the Nasdaq dropped 4.08%.   The session started in negative territory and then it just slipped away. The S&P 500 dropped for a fifth consecutive session, its worst losing streak since November 2016; falling below the 50-day and 100-day moving averages. As the Dow dropped, it fell below its 50-day moving average around 25,948; the 200-day moving average is down around 25,140. This was the worst day for the Dow since February.  Stocks closed right at lows for the session. All three indexes are in the red this month. But the Nasdaq has really taken it on the chin: It has plunged more than 6% already in October. Among individual stocks, here are some of the better-known names that took a hit today: Nike down 11.5%; Microsoft lost 6.4%; Apple dropped 3.3%; Netflix down 8.4%; Nvidia down 7.5%; Amazon down 6.2%. Futures for the Dow are pointing ...