Thin volume 'risk on' rally as stocks faded into the close from the highs but kept some gains.
The markets are primarily eyeing the sovereign debt situation and discounting domestic results and economy, at least for now.
"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