Although the Cafe is open, the proprietor is temporarily overcome by a state of ennui regarding the financial markets.
From the volume today it appears to be a more widespread condition than those managing this distribution rally would have preferred.
No positions taken into the close except of course those very long term ones so firm as to be not worth discussing.
"Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique." Balzac La Femme de Trente Ans 1832
(Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.)
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel