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.)
"O that I could find in the desert a wayside shelter for travelers, that I might depart from my people. For they are all adulterers, an unfaithful mob of traitors. Their tongues are devious weapons, bent like drawn bows. With falsehoods rather than truth they have gained power. They commit one crime after another. They do not know me, says the Lord. I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, the lair of jackals. I will lay waste to Judah, a desolation where no one can live."
Jeremiah 9:2-3,11