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Stocks are up and Bonds are down after this morning’s latest GDP report showed consumer spending rose 3.5%, driving corporate profits up 9.3%, both compared to this time last year.  The final reading for Gross Domestic Product in the 4th quarter of 2016 came in at 2.1%, taking the expansion rate for the year of 2016 overall to 1.6%.  That’s 1.0% below 2015’s growth, and the most anemic since 2011.