[trebb]

Several factors involved...economy is not one of them...China may be about to have her throat bared for Trump to leverage down the road and OPEC deciding to buck us by lowering output are probably biggest factors and it's not just a US phenomenon.

Wouldn't worry about it.

[familyop]

Yes. The complaining has begun here on oil prices, too.

Trump Throws Hail Mary Tweet on Eve of OPEC Meeting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3711012/posts

Gas is less than two dollars a gallon at the pumps in parts of the South and Midwest, and holiday spending is higher.

[familyop]

I just remembered that much of the American-”based” manufacturing has been happening on foreign soil for a long time. Interesting, with bonds going up, too (prices up, yields down). We’ll see how some of the newer manufacturing on U.S. soil does.