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.)
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception