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For the second trading day in a row, market indices slid into the closing bell at or near session lows. It’s been a pretty dreadful day and a half of trading, or thereabouts — tracing back to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference yesterday where he revealed a new dot-plot for interest rate levels that basically keeps them even through full year 2024. That, plus 10-year bond yields now climbing toward 5% are throwing a wet blanket on equities trading, even as we see a fairly healthy Q3 earning