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Yesterday's brief late night dip in ES has been promptly bought with US equity futures fractionally lower, Asian shares inching higher on Thursday and Europe unchanged ahead of today's Super Thursday, where we get the Republican tax bill revealed shortly before noon, the BoE's rate hike announcement, and Trump appointing Jay Powell as the next Fed chair, as well as as earnings from companies including Apple and Starbucks. With the dollar dropping slightly, markets seem to have taken a shine to the euro and EM FX, specifically your high beta currencies.

In perhaps the least anticipated FOMC statement in months - with expectations of no rate-change and normalization on path - all eyes were on inflation/growth wording.

Pershing Square's Bill Ackman, who has been engaged in a 5-year long feud with Herbalife, betting its stock price would tumble to zero, came one step closer to admitting defeat on Wednesday when he told CNBC that his hedge fund recently restructured its position in the nutrition and supplements maker. "We converted the short position into a put position," Ackman said in an interview with CNBC, adding that his firm's potential losses on Herbalife will now be capped at 3 percent of the firm's capital. "We can still lose money but the loss is capped."

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" seems to be the clarion call from many in the markets as traders who should, and do, know better, hold their noses, pluck out their eyes, plug their ears and buy stocks with both hands and feet. As former fund manager Richard Breslow noted this morning, there's something different with this equity rally.

Different indeed...

Via Bloomberg,

In this historic, for global markets, year we are fast running out of things "the market has never done before."