New highs! markets continue to creep higher after a breakout post employment report.

The employment report came in strong with 255k added to payrolls. The official unemployment number now stands at 4.9%. The average workweek was steady at 34.5 hours with a slight uptick to average hourly earnings.

 Employment Chart

With the employment report - markets surged - the S&P 500 hit an all-time high after floating sideways for the past few weeks.
- Productivity is down hard last month and inventories on the rise. What does that portend?

Walmart is buying Jet.com for $3 billion. Now that is going to be interesting competition for Amazon.

Trump's economic plan recently announced:

• No American company will pay more than 15% in its income; reducing taxes from 35% to 15%.
• Will cut regulations 'massively'.
• Lower business tax will kill corporate inversions.
• Plans to eliminate the estate tax.
• Proposed reducing income tax to 3 levels not 7 (12%, 25%, and 33%); Prior high for this was 25%.
• Will target tax-specific loop holes in tax laws.
• Says no family will have to pay the death tax.
• Says will kill all 'illegal and over reaching' executive orders.
• Wants to renegotiate the NAFTA deal; says if U.S. does not get what it wants then he will walk away from the deal.
• Says will eliminate the Trans Pacific Trade Pact.
• Reiterates he would repeal Obamacare.

Olympics: A Sky News reporter tweeted that an Olympic kayaker on a practice run capsized after hitting a sofa. The Olympic organizers are currently investigating. (Water where they race is very polluted)

What is with the cupping ? Plenty of Olympic athletes have the red/purple circles from cupping procedures.

Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympics for "gravely" violating team rules by going out for a night of drinking in Rio after qualifying for the finals of the rings event, the Dutch team said.

Medal count? [LINK]

3-day workweek - Carlos Slim (Mexico's richest person) - "It’s important that people don’t retire at 50, 60, or 65 years old. I think people should retire later, because they’ll have more knowledge and experience. And I think they should work three days a week, so that it creates space for others." " This way, there will be less need for transportation. Nations wouldn’t have to face early retirements that are financially destabilizing. The quality of life and having four days a week free would encourage a lot of economic activities—more tourism, entertainment, sports, culture, and education. People can take advantage of those extra days to keep learning."

It looks like Volkswagen's diesel scandal could keep rolling as reports claim that the automaker has three hidden software programs in its 3.0-liter engines.
- That secret software in Volkswagen's 3.0-liter diesels can turn off the vehicles' emissions controls, Reuters reports, citing the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag. The emissions control system allegedly shuts off after 22 minutes, when most emissions tests take about 20.

Nikkei Asian Review reported Monday that AMZN Japan was raided by antitrust officials in Japan. Amazon Japan pricing deals with competitors are under antitrust investigation

Walt Disney Co's quarterly profit and revenue on Tuesday beat analysts' estimates fueled by movie studio hits, and the media company said it was taking a stake in a streaming video technology company to sell more content directly to consumers.

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Massive outage for Delta Air - planed grounded worldwide on Monday - what caused this?
- Delta suffered a meltdown of its computer system, causing hundreds of canceled flights and shining another light on the airline industry’s aging technology.

Zika: Four Zika-related biotech companies — BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BCRX), Intrexon Corp. (XON), Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (INO) and Cerus Corp. CERS), — could potentially benefit from the virus’ spread to the continental U.S., , though each company has a different approach to fighting the virus.

Crude oil: Starting to see headline and murmurs about a potential for OPEC to freeze output - AGAIN! This could mean that there is a bigger glut that thought and they are worried (watch for $35?)

Facebook: Procter & Gamble, the biggest advertising spender in the world, will move away from advertising on Facebook that targets specific consumers after deciding the practice has limited effectiveness. AND
- Facebook is going to start forcing ads to appear for all users of its desktop website, even if they use ad-blocking software. The social network said on Tuesday that it will change the way advertising is loaded into its desktop website to make its ad units considerably more difficult for ad blockers to detect.- - - “This isn’t motivated by inventory; it’s not an opportunity for Facebook from that perspective,” Mr. Bosworth said. “We’re doing it more for the principle of the thing. We want to help lead the discussion on this.”

Corporate bond defaults keep coming. The global default rate among bonds rated below investment grade rose to 4.7% in July from 4.6% in June, Moody’s Investors Service reported Tuesday. The long-term average default rate is 4.2%. The year-to-date tally rose to 102 with 11 defaults in July — they highest monthly count since 2009. (However, HYG and junk bond funds are continuing to rally as the hunt for yield continues)

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