Stock Indices Displaying the New Minimalism

If not for the power of levitating algos, stocks would have ended the week with losses.

As it is, the major indices end the week (markets closed on Good Friday) with minuscule gains on puny volume, except for the NASDAQ, which actually finished negative for the fourth week in the past five.

Here's how the week shook out:

Dow Ind. +50.58 (0.29)
S&P 500 +5.94 (0.29)
NASDAQ -4.28 (0.09)

... and on the day:
Dow 17,763.24. +65.06 (0.37%)
S&P 500 2,066.96, +7.27 (0.35%)
NASDAQ 4,886.94, +6.71 (0.14%)

For this, we need not one (CNBC), not two (Bloomberg TV), but three (Fox Business) cable networks devoted to stocks?

It would be worthwhile, one supposes, if even one of them told the truth about Wall Street half the time.

These public markets and the networks devoted to coverage of them, are epic fails. The world is rapidly moving beyond their facile facades of importance and heft. Most of the world's population does not own stocks and has no use for massive, unfair, unfeeling corporations and their oligarch-like executives.

Indeed, would half of the Fortune 500 companies in the world fail, markets would clear and more entrepreneurs would take up the slack, having the chance to make an honest living.

Corporations, like the governments which support them, are leeches which prey upon the blood of individuals and communities. The sooner people wake up to the fact that they are strip-mining operations of productive capacity, the better.

Peace. Out.