…..Eight years since S&P 666. North Korea acting badly and bad actors accommodate. Trump signs immigration ban, again. Cancel the reservations. GM sells Opel to Peugeot. Deutsche Bank scraping together cash. Standard-Aberdeen? Wells Fargo under further investigation. Greek austerity fails, again. Did Uber steal from Alphabet? Oh, Snap! TG Therapeutic doubles. Bird flu, again. Arizona minimum wage challenge, again. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 03-06-2017 DOW – 51 = 20,954 SPX – 7 = 2375 NAS – 21 = 5849 RUT – 9 = 1384 10 Y flat = 2.49% OIL – .12 = 53.21 GOLD – 8.80 = 1226.50 On this date in 2009, the S&P 500 hit an intraday low of 666; the closing low was 3 days later but the intraday low was 8 years ago. On Friday, Fed chair Janet Yellen signaled that an interest rate hike would likely come when Fed leaders meet next week. A March rate hike is now being priced into the markets. About the only thing that could change the Fed’s plan is weak economic data, giving extra significance to Friday’s jobs report. In January, according to DOL’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 227,000 jobs; unemployment was at 4.8 percent; and hourly earnings rose 0.1%. The US probably created a healthy 200,000 new jobs last month, keeping the unemployment rate below 5%. North Korea fired four ballistic missiles early today. Three landed within a couple hundred miles of Japan, in what Japan considers an exclusive economic zone. The United States has ...