I was going to take the day off and not write Dave’s Daily today stupidly thinking markets would be more or less unchanged waiting for the Fed decision Wednesday. It seems bulls are confident the Fed will end QE on schedule and at the same time give bulls dovish comments about conditions (“don’t mess with us”!) going forward. Many pundits are discussing interest rates remaining unchanged for several years and longer. That means companies like IBM can continue (another $5 billion share buyback announced today) their financial engineering to lessen float making it easy to report better earnings at the price of future innovation and company growth. But bulls don’t care about future growth, only what takes place now. Besides, this is the season when bulls make their year,
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