Your News Roundup

Here are some of the biggest news highlights from last week.

In the case of Star Wars, the news is CASH.

Loads and loads of CASH.


- new Star Wars movie passes $1 BILLION at the global box office

- U.S. existing home sales plunge

- Ford recalling 313,000 vehicles

- and not to be outdone..... Fiat Chrysler recalling 570,000 SUVs

- Kentucky to stop printing names of county clerks on marriage licenses

- Oregon woman plows car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip

- judge upholds Seattle's new tax on firearms and ammunition sales

- U.S. retailers are struggling to meet even modest forecasts for the holiday shopping season

- jobless claims in the U.S. near a 42-year low

- meanwhile.... unemployment rates rise in all Illinois metro areas except Chicago

- Bridgestone submits higher offer than Carl Icahn to purchase Pep Boys

- Illinois Attorney General says that fantasy sports contests are illegal gambling

- President of the American Medical Association wants the government to back-off doctors

- richest man in Illinois (Ken Griffin) donates $40 MILLION to New York's Museum of Modern Art

- McDonalds begins testing of mac and cheese menu item

- Caterpillar stock rallies

- Hillary and Donald maintain their commanding leads

- Denny Hastert recovering from stroke

- no Chicago Bears chosen for the NFL All-Pro Team


ZERO.
NIL.
NADA.

After the disappointing season that they've had, I guess it makes sense.

Out for now.......

Matt

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