Now, Where’d I Put That Strychnine?

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Now, Where’d I Put That Strychnine?

Postby brogine » Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:54 pm

Just heard on NPR . . .

“The stock market was mostly mixed today.”
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Re: Now, Where’d I Put the Strychnine?

Postby Slava » Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:28 am

:?: :?: I must be missing something here, I don't get it.

Can't the stock market be mixed in various ways?
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Re: Now, Where’d I Put the Strychnine?

Postby brogine » Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:20 pm

Perhaps. But this was not an introduction to an exhaustive analysis of sector performance. It was a one-sentence item in a general news report. I stand by my original curmudgeonly position, sir!

In your ordinary generic news report, a ‘mixed market’ is one where two of the three popular indices close one way, and the third, in the opposite direction. Or is it one and two . . . ?


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