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Well, another morning, another disappointment. When I hit the sack last night, the ES down down double digits, and the Chinese stock market was in another freefall. Before I fired up my iPad, I facetiously asked myself what I would think if the ES was green. Well, I didn’t have to wait long to find out, since everything had already reversed.

What’s really eye-opening is that even though the USD/JPY is down pretty firmly

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………which normally would ensure a nice fat red number on the ES, it seems to have been overpowered by crude’s continued resurgence…….

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Hence an ES that went from down double digits to comfortable green…..

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Feh! Forgive me for whining, but after bracing myself for the weekend’s G20 meeting and its potential for a surprise announcement – – subsequently the meeting having produced jack squat – – I was hoping we’d shed some of those 1200 Dow points that have been slapped on lately. Nope. Not yet.