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Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

About there not being anyone interested in the market beyond Da Boyz... I don't know if you ever read Tyler Durden's posts on SA, but a couple weeks back he noted that institutional and individual investor volume on the major stock exchanges had sunk from an average 3.8 billion shares a few months ago to 1.8 billion shares. That left, as he put it, "a bunch of computers desperately trying to front-run each other" as the sole remaining source of market volume. Well, that and a certain large bank which likes to regularly shout "Boo!" in its own special way by dumping multi-million share market buy orders of SPY into the system.

Tuesday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets, More

I'm sorry, Pelosi's speech was inappropriate, but any Republican congresspeople who decided to change their vote (and in the process risk setting dynamite at the foundation of the economy) due to it need to be demoted to something more appropriate to their judgment and maturity level. Junior High School comes to mind.