Simply trying to understand this onslaught of numbers, it can make your head swim. And you know im into this stuff. Even when a day like this one, dow slipped 67 points, s p dropped. 11, nasdaq advanced. 366 and some disturbing margin trends, but things could change in a moments notice for google. Thats just what happens the distortions caused by all these earnings coming at once are immense. So if youre listening to me, cfos and ceos, please, you need to rethink when you report, you can do it earlier, later, anything but this week youre not going to get the right prices for your stock. With that in mind, lets get right to the rest of the weeks business if theres a theme of weakness in 2017, its the autos. The consensus is the slowdown in car sales could signal that u. S. Industrial output might have piq peaked these are musts. Okay gigantic industrials report tomorrow morning, cat pill hear, 3m, United Technologies and the chatter is all there 3 will report better than expected number