A light volume, headline-driven market.
There is a lot of desire on the Street to rally stocks into the year end.
Europe is a stumbling block.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012