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• Shares bounce, euro fades after savage ECB reaction (Reuters)
• Trump's Islam comments draw attacks as Republicans discover civility (Reuters)
• IEA Says Oil Price May Have Bottomed as High-Cost Producers Cut (BBG)
• Oil Prices Rise on Hopes Glut Will Ease (WSJ)
• Why Euro-Area Inflation Will Be Low for Years, According to Draghi (BBG)
• Calmer markets, positive data prime Fed to push ahead with rate rises (Reuters)
• Key powers mulling possibility of federal division of Syria (Reuters)

That the world's largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio's Bridgewater, just announced the appointment of an hardware engineer, even one as enlightened as former NeXT and Apple executive Jon Rubinstein, should tell you all you need to know about what is really going on in the "market."

Full announcement from Bridgewater:

Jon Rubinstein Joining as a co-CEO of Bridgewater

From the Slope of Hope: Over the past ten months, in steps almost too small to be noticed by the mass media, Apple has shed over two hundred billion dollars in value. That's nearly one quarter of a trillion dollars in wealth which would have fed shareholder dreams of new houses, new boats, new jewelry, and mink coats, but..........it's gone.