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For those curious if today's healthcare vote will take place during market hours, the answer is: it will be dicey. An email from the majority whip Steve Scalise notes that the tentative timing of today's vote will be sometime between 3:45pm and 4:45pm, with a walk off the Floor expected between 4:30pm and 5:30pm.

And in what may be more important news, CNBC's John Harwood reports that "Ryan/Trump have whittled hard no's in House Freedom Caucus down to around 18", with the outstanding question "How many moderates join them?"

A 39-year-old transgender who was born male has won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia.  Former male Laurel Hubbard has broken four national records by winning gold at the Australasian Championships in Melbourne. [...]

Unemployed quarterback Colin Kaepernick “won’t play again“, with one NFL team executive calling the controversial quarterback “an embarrassment to football” and another declaring “his career is over, nobody will touch him.” After refusing to stand for the national anthem before games last year, desperate Colin Kaepernick has now promised NFL team executives that he will stand with everyone else in 2017 – if only they will give him a chance and sign him. “Kaepernick’s goose is cooked.

President Donald Trump will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel later this month for a full and frank discussion about Germany’s failed immigration policies. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked Merkel for “destroying Germany,” will meet with the German leader on March 14 in Washington. The Express reports: The pair haven’t got off to the best start after President Trump blasted the beleaguered German leader for “ruining” Germany over her open door refugee policy. They will meet on March 14, according to US officials.

By EconMatters

We discuss in this video why Technical Analysis is completely useless right now at these elevated levels in the Financial Markets. It literally all comes down to one thing, who is the big seller that chickens out first.