…..Flat days the new norm. Glass-Steagall lives? ECB holds steady. Layoffs down. Jobless claims up. AZ loses jobs in Jan. Bill Gross on the Trump mirage and nitro on a bumpy road. 10-year note crosses 2.6%. No sale on paint. GE sells water works. Sears fading away. Flippers got legs. Happy and healthy cities. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 03-09-2017 DOW + 2 = 20,858 SPX + 1 = 2364 NAS + 1 = 5838 RUT – 5 = 1360 10 Y + .05 = 2.60% OIL – .53 = 49.75 GOLD – 7.20 = 1201.80 Stocks dipped in afternoon trade but held on for minor gains, next to nothing really. Another quiet day. The S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials have not suffered a 1% decline in 102 trading sessions, dating back to October 11. The longest stretch of trading days without a 1% decline since Dec. 18, 1995 for the S&P 500 and the longest since Sept. 20, 1993, for the Dow. It’s quiet, almost too quiet.   Another drop in oil prices weighed on energy shares while financial shares pared some of their early gains. When asked during a briefing whether President Donald Trump still backs his campaign pledge to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said that he did. The law, which separated commercial and investment banking, was repealed in 1999 and, if reinstated, would mainly apply to larger banks, which have been market leaders in the past few months. Much of ...