They've given all this extremely confusing talk about unconventional methods over the past few months. There's substantial work to be done on the whole communication issue over there.

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It's very bizarre. You didn't get much activity at all after the number came out, and then people went back to talking about the war.

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This is a number you're not supposed to pay attention to in the summer.

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It's going to be much harder for the Fed to talk rates down after what's gone on lately. At this stage it's really going to require action rather than talk.

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After last week's sell-off a lot of people were caught underwater on positions. So after the market's bounce this morning, traders took it as an opportunity to lighten up on their positions . . . to buy back on some of their loss incurred Friday.

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It won't make these problems go away, but it certainly will help.

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In all their recent speeches, Fed officials certainly haven't given up any flexibility at all. For them to do something where they give up a tremendous amount of flexibility would be a big surprise.

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With signs of things looking a little better, those expectations have diminished.

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I'm not against conspiracy theories as a whole, but they have to be at least somewhat credible. I guess that now that the 'X Files' is off the air you need to have this stuff to fill the void.

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