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.)
"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535