>>I agree with your earlier observation about these movements being a dance around a long-term moving average, which is of more interest to the rich you despise than to your average working Joe. I'm more interested in business morale across the board, especially small business as the big driver of employment, with my US buddies saying it's going great guns. > > Strange that the party that hated deficits is now happy with the US having a soaring deficit thanks to Donalds tax cuts. We could exchange statistics meaninglessly but already the noises are starting about the need to "reduce spending" and as the military spend will be ring fenced where is that come to come from. I'm guessing meauer to help poor people (as usual)