…..Stocks bounce today but down for the week amid the noise and hast. Oil tops $50. Brazil’s faces more corruption problems. AT&T weekend strike. Fiat-Chrysler and VW work on diesel scam fix. Student loan debt collection wasted. Americans don’t have a cash cushion. We know where the money is hiding.   Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 05-19-2017 DOW + 141 = 20,804 SPX + 16 = 2381 NAS + 28 = 6083 RUT + 6 = 1367 10 Y + .01 = 2.23% OIL + 1.18 = 50.53 GOLD + 8.80 = 1256.60 Stocks finished with triple digit gains but well off session highs as news headlines once again rattled traders. The Dow gave back more than 50 points and the S&P 500 saw gains cut in half following an afternoon news dump. The Washington Post is reporting that a current White House official is a significant person of interest in the law enforcement investigation. Separately the New York Times reported that Trump told Russian officials at the White House that firing FBI Director James Comey relieved “great pressure” from an ongoing probe into Russia and the election. The Times report cited a document summarizing the meeting. Trump is on the first leg of a ten-day overseas trip that starts in Saudi Arabia, then moves to Israel, the Vatican, Brussels (for a NATO summit), and then Sicily for a G7 summit. The Trump administration planned to announce $110 billion in sales of advanced military equipment and training to Saudi ...