….Dow, S&P and Nasdaq hit record highs. Fed minutes – policymakers uncertain about a certain rate hike. JOLTS shows labor market remains strong. Tweets on the market and taxes send mixed message. Japan’s Nikkei hits record. Catalonia at the crossroads. Airline earnings. Everybody loves Carole King. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 10-11-2017   DOW + 42 = 22,872 SPX + 4 = 2555 NAS + 16 = 6603 RUT – 1 = 1506 10 Y un = 2.35% OIL + .39 = 51.31 GOLD + 3.60 = 1292.10   The Dow Industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite all closed at record highs. With the S&P 500 up 14 percent in 2017, investors are betting on strong earnings growth across the S&P 500. Banks take the focus as JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup report results on Thursday, with analysts warning that results in the sector will largely be held back by low trading volumes compared with a year earlier. Profits at companies in the S&P 500 stock index are expected to increase by 4.6% in the July-thru-September quarter, once corporations have finished reporting results, according to earnings-tracker Thomson Reuters. That’s a sharp deceleration from the 10%-plus gains in the first two quarters of 2017.   The Federal Reserve released the minutes from their September 20th FOMC meeting. At that meeting, the Fed decided to begin quantitative tightening, by selling off some of the Treasuries and mortgage backed securities held on their balance sheet; they also left interest rates unchanged. It is widely expected the Fed ...