FRIDAY 4/24/15; Greece Meeting; Arbor Day; AAL; BIIB; SPG; STT; TYC; Durable Goods; SPX, COMPQ and NYA All-Time Record Highs; AMZN, GOOGL, MSFT and SBUX Explode Higher

Asian indexes are set for a flat to marginally higher open. New Zealand is hit with a strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake. Buildings and houses are damaged. The NIKK loses -0.8% during the session to 20020. Japanese airlines are weak. The NIKK is up +2% this week.

Aussie stocks are strong with the SPASX200 up +1.5% providing enough strength to create a +1% gain this week. Energy and materials stocks run higher and Australia is optimistic that the PBOC will 
















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 Financial author James Altucher says, “The reality is we’re at the all time highs in the stock market and it’s going to continue.” Altucher says every time someone says something bad about the stock market they are wrong. Altrucher says “the reality is that we are at all-time highs in the stock market and its going to continue.”

7000 SBUX stores in the United States and 1000 in Canada close due to cash register and computer system problems. The outages begin at 7:30 PM EST. Starbucks remains cryptic concerning the outage chalking it up to “technical difficulties.” Starbucks Evolution Fresh and Teavana stores are also affected.