Remember just a few days ago that TOP (a stock that traded just a few thousand shares a day until magically it started trading tens of millions of shares a day?) was the talk of the town? Well THAT de-escalated quickly!
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Well, that was kind of anti-climactic. One would assume that between the one-two punch of Apple’s earnings and the monthly jobs report, the market would be absolutely rocking and rolling. Instead, as I’m typing this, the stock futures are up a humdrum three-quarters of a percent or so. It’s particularly surprising since the jobs data came in kind of hot:
This stuff writes itself at this point.