…..China trade deal. GE like Nafta. CPI up. Inventories down. Consumer sentiment: bad now but it’ll get better. Consumers consuming, but not at JC Penney. Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla. Wells Fargo, worse than we thought. Worldwide cyber-attack. Do not click. Jeff Session declares war on drugs, again. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 05-12-2017 DOW – 22 = 20,896 SPX – 3 = 2390 NAS + 5 = 6121 RUT – 7 = 1382 10Y – .07 = 2.34% OIL – .01 = 47.82 GOLD + 2.90 = 1228.70 The Dow industrials and S&P 500 both snapped a streak of three weeks of gains Friday, closing lower for the session and week, while the Nasdaq finished higher for a fourth week of gains. For the week, the Dow dropped 0.5%, the S&P 500 ended the week down 0.4%. The Nasdaq posted a weekly gain of 0.3%. After months of bashing China for its trade practices, the Trump administration said it had agreed with Beijing on a broad range of measures aimed at improving the access of American beef producers, electronic-payments providers and natural-gas exporters, among others. The U.S. has been lobbying for China to open up its market to American beef for years — it was banned in China in 2003 after a mad cow disease scare. The perception among some businessmen in the country has been that the Chinese have been sitting on the beef issue until the U.S. agreed to buy cooked poultry products ...