S&P stays in tight, tight range. EU wants $14.5 billion chunk of Apple for sweetheart tax deal in Ireland. Apple, Ireland, and the US are outraged. Election day in AZ. Home prices higher. Consumer confidence is higher but it’ll get worse. TTIP in jeopardy. Stopping a revolving door. Banks’ profits grow. Zika reaches Asia. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 08-30-2016   DOW – 48 = 18,454 SPX – 4 = 2176 NAS – 9 = 5222 10 Y + .01 = 1.57% OIL – .70 = 46.28 GOLD – 12.70 = 1311.50   Since July 8, when the S&P rose 1.54%, that index hasn’t moved more than 0.9% in any given day, and most of those changes were slight gains, including 10 all-time highs. Since Brexit, the S&P 500 has now gone 43 straight sessions without a daily decline greater than 0.7%. Compare that with the first 43 days of this year when it happened 15 times. For the month of August, the S&P 500 has managed to gain just 3 points, which means it is about as flat as it can be.   EU antitrust regulators have ordered Apple to pay up to €13-billion-euro ($14.5-billion dollars) in taxes to the Irish government after ruling that a special scheme to route profits through the country was illegal state aid. The EU Commission says Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of less than five-one-thousandth of a percent (0.005%) on its European profits in 2014.   Apple has previously said it received ...