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Daily SPY Recap (by Leaf_West)

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Dion 90 x 122 Well on top of having the worst day in the markets since last August, traders woke up to face the news of the biggest earthquake in Japanese history.  Throw on top of that some news about China’s inflation rate exceeding expectations, and new Portugal austerity measures (totally unrealistic) and it looked like it was going to be an emotional start to the trading day (read my pre-market blog). 

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