…..King Dollar gonna kill us all. Earnings season and weak forward guidance will be punished. Forget about soft Brexit. Xi to Davos. Deutsche Bank settles. BAT tobacco behemoth. Exxon buys Texas. Saudis ready to end cuts. GM announces jobs. Hyundai announces jobs. Walmart announces jobs. Lowe’s cuts. The last man on the moon. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 01-17-2017 DOW – 58 = 19,862 SPX – 6 = 2267 NAS – 35 = 5538 RUT – 19 = 1352 10 Y – .05 = 2.33% OIL + .13 = 52.50 GOLD + 12.80 = 1216.40   Major market indices dropped at the open this morning and couldn’t recover. In a Friday interview with The Wall Street Journal, President-elect Trump said the U.S. currency, which touched a more-than 14-year high about two weeks ago, has gotten “too strong,” especially considering the China’s yuan is “dropping like a rock.” Trump told the Wall Street Journal, “Our companies can’t compete with them now because our currency is too strong. And it’s killing us.” The stock market has been taking its cue from the dollar, and the dollar has been saying the US economy is strong and growing, and the prospects of the Fed raising rates only confirms the strength of the economy. This is not the first time we’ve talked about the strong dollar, and the long dollar trade is already crowded, followed by short Treasuries. And there is another problem – while stocks have enjoyed a strong dollar, with money flowing in, dollar strength is ...