Earnings beats from cloud software companies are fueling sentiment, suggesting that the technology sector may outperform in Q “Food prices are too damn high,” Matt K. Lewis said at The Hill . Rising costs mean that a family of four “could end up dropping close to $100 for a night out — at McDonald’s.” There might be a variety of reasons for that, but it has not been so long since then-President Joe Biden “got blamed for high food costs” by swing voters who “broke hard for Trump.” The question now is whether anyone will blame Trump or Republicans for this. Although home sales in August mostly underwhelmed, dropping 0.2% from July and increasing a modest 1.8% from a year earlier, sales at $1 million or above were up 8.4% from a year ago, according to National Association of Realtors data. Recent "Yahoo Finance Markets" data shows Nasdaq rising 1.1% to 17,
