…..Retail sales for the holiday – big gains online. PPI surge. House votes to repeal Obamacare. Earnings season kicks off with strong bank earnings, except for Wells Fargo. Fiat Chrysler bounces. VW execs should stay home. Space X launch. EPA says CAFÉ standards moved up. CVS competes with Mylan EpiPen. Millennials lag. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 01-13-2017 DOW – 5 = 19,887 SPX + 4 = 2274 NAS + 26 = 5574 RUT + 10 = 1372 10Y + .02 = 2.38% OIL – .54 = 53.30 GOLD + 1.80 = 1197.80 For the week, the Dow and S&P posted slight declines, but the Nasdaq rose nearly 1 percent; posting its sixth record high close of 2017.   The Commerce Department says retail sales increased 0.6 percent last month. November’s retail sales were revised up to show a 0.2 percent rise instead of the previously reported 0.1 percent gain. Sales were up 4.1 percent from December 2015. They rose 3.3 percent for all of 2016, up from 2.3 percent in 2015. Excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, retail sales rose 0.2 percent after being flat in November. For the 11th straight year, sales at department stores fell. They dropped 5.6% in 2016 to mark the second-largest decline since the government began keeping track in the early 1990s. They’ve dropped in 15 out of the last 17 years. At the same time, sales at so-called nonstore retailers soared 11.4% in 2016 — the largest gain in 10 ...