Stocks Celebrate Government Shutdown By Surging To New Record High

And another rugpull for the bears.

With many pessimistic traders expecting that today's US government shutdown would finally be the reason to short/sell stocks, that's precisely what we got... for a few hours. And then stocks did what they always do since April: they blasted off and soared to new all time highs, appropriately enough on the day the US government is closed just to rub it in the panickans' faces.