The week started with oil futures jumping, 15%, the most ever overnight, as investors tried to understand the impact of a targeted attack on two Saudi refineries. Tuesday, overnight lending market rates (repo market) spiked, indicating lending stress. This caused the fed to inject $75 billion into the financial system, not once, not…

Modest Job Growth Shows Economy Expanding, but Slowly Equites rallied for the second straight week, supported by developments in trade and politics and mildly encouraging economic data. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both rose 1.8%, the Dow gained 1.5% The R2k was higher by 0.7% but trailed its large-cap peers….