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Quite a night, eh, folks? I honestly can’t remember anything like this since the financial crisis, and even then, I think last night was wilder. I actually kept semi-dreaming that the ES had turned green. It, umm, hasn’t.

My pack of dogs wants their walk, but before I do that, I’ll share a few charts with Yellen Body Parts ™ as a supplement. First, here is the ES, which had been locked limit down at one point, but now, as the turds at CNBC might say, is “off the lows.” It’s astonishing to me that just after the close yesterday, it was at the highest levels in human history.

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