Just like yesterday [2], for the second consecutive day we showed what a broken, manipulated farce the S&P has become, when we tweeted several hours ago, just what we knew, for a fact, was going to happen. To wit:
Time for today's hope rumor: 10:45-11:15am.
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 15, 2013 [3]
And sure enough, just as we predicted...
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In short: a market by the vacuum tubes, for the idiots.