…..Trump expected to pull US out of Paris accord on climate change. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 05-31-2017 DOW – 20 = 21,008 SPX – 1 = 2411 NAS – 4 = 6198 RUT – 1 = 1370 10 Y – .02 = 2.20% OIL – 1.03 = 48.63 GOLD + 5.80 = 1269.60   President Trump could pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Trump refused to endorse the landmark climate change accord at a summit of the G7 Saturday in Italy, saying he needed more time to decide. The accord, which has been agreed to by 195 countries and ratified by 147 countries since it was signed in December 2015, established a specific set of tools to help countries cut greenhouse gas emissions over time. Its goal is to hold global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and to avoid the worst risks of a warmer planet. While it’s certainly not the end-all, be-all scheme to reverse global warming, the agreement is the most comprehensive international effort yet to tackle the climate problem, even though compliance is voluntary. Trump has been dithering on the decision for months, thanks to a tug-of-war playing out among his advisers. He’s already rolled back the policies that would ensure we might make our commitment to Paris, so effectively, he’s stepped out of the accord before officially doing so.   Scientists have been warning us for years that a rise in global average temperature more than 2 degrees Celsius will mean widespread stresses ...