The Market On Friday

  Good morning. It is 81 degrees, humid as all hell, and sunny here in the Upper Hudson Valley. The forecast predicts a mostly cloudy day with temperatures in the 90s. Dang, it's hot. Well, there we have it, another horrendous attack, this one in Nice, France. 84 people are dead as a result of a truck with driver intentionally plowing into a crowd. The modern style of murder is here, crazed people choose a very soft target, someplace where people congregate out of ease and freedom, and then the crazed person commits mass murder. How do we protect ourselves from that?

  At 9:00 a.m. ET, futures are modestly higher and the price of oil per barrel is up. The Market is poised to open modestly higher.

  There is a distinct feeling of pause to the market this morning. Besides the horrific attack in France, data out of China is not astounding; the data is however slightly better than expected. The weekend is here, the market was boiling earlier this week, enjoy your good fortune.

CNN: Stocks: 4 things to know before the open by Alanna Petroff

However, (China's) growth has now slowed to levels last seen during the dark days of the global financial crisis in early 2009. And economists see more challenges ahead for the world's second biggest economy.