…Earnings season strong but may have hit peak earnings. Google shines. Trade wars loom. Iran gets tweet threat. Commodity prices slammed by tariff talk. Existing home sales slip Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 07-23-2018 DOW – 13 = 25,044 SPX + 5 = 2806 NAS + 21 = 7841 RUT + 1 = 1698 10 Y + .07 = 2.96% OIL – .46 = 67.80 GOLD – 7.50 = 1225.00 For the S&P 500, the 2800 level is turning into a significant level of support; and the Dow has support at the 25,000 level. Today, those levels held. This is the busiest week of earnings reporting season. There are 174 S&P 500 index companies scheduled to report earnings this week. Eleven of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components are on the docket as well. The earnings reporting season is off to a great start, with 87 percent of the S&P 500 companies that have reported, posting reporting better-than-expected profits as compared with the same period in 2017. Though it’s still a relatively small sample — 17 percent of the index — the early results are encouraging. What is somewhat concerning, though, is that the strong second quarter is not inspiring hopes for a more powerful third quarter. Expectations for the July-to-September period have changed little even as earnings momentum otherwise has grown. Analysts surveyed by FactSet still expect the quarter to grow 21.5 percent, a notch below the 21.6 percent estimate as of June 30 but still among ...