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Market today, S&P 500, that is, closed at an all-time high.

And it just doesn't even really seem real to say it.

Now, the Dow was down 65 points today.

The S&P and the NASDAQ were up.

Dow has a little ways to go still to get back to its all-time high.

You definitely have a little bit of, well, it's more than a little bit.

It's pretty historically significant decorrelation between the three major market indices.

But regardless, I mean, you can kind of nitpick around it.

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