Friday’s job number of 209K beat the Street’s 180K estimate with hourly earnings ticking up 0.3% as mid-year raises kick in.

Equity futures markets are up 60 points on Dow unchanged from prior, despite the news out of Washington of a special grand jury being impaneled.

The dollar also strengthen on the job news.

The fact that the markets shrugged off Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s actions, speaks more to the continued DC gridlock, which the equity markets see as a buying opportunity.

I would like to acknowledge the passing of a great newspaperman and researcher Jim Marrs.

Marrs was a prolific writer with 14 published tomes and his book, “Crossfire” was used by Oliver Stone for his film, “JFK”.

Marrs was a cub reporter in Dallas on the day of the assassination and worked tirelessly for many years talking to sources within the Dallas police department and Secret Service to construct an alternative narrative to the events on Nov. 22, 1963.

Marrs taught a course on the Kennedy assassination at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Marrs was 74 years old at the time of his death.