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Sweet me and Chipmmer. The Consumer Calvary got here just in time to give us what looks to be the beginning of a Santa Claus round.

That's the only way to describe what worked today.

Everything involving consumer spending.

Couldn't come a better time because tech's been faltered.

We needed something big to replace it.

Even as you couldn't tell from the averages, Dow advancing 66 points,

does to be jumping 0.75%, but the tech-laid NASDAQ surging 1.38%.

Let me set the seat.

For most of the year, we've had the, oh, wo is the narrative consumer, right?

I mean, oh, consumer doing so poorly.

Higher unemployment, true.

Inflation kept the consumer on the sidelines.

We kept thinking that they were just decelerating.

Retail is pretty awful, except for Walmart, which powered through everything as CEO

Doug McBillan moved to key prices low.

His own one-man war against inflation.

A war, I think he may have won before he's retired.

We didn't see the weakness in the averages, though, even though the consumer represents

two-thirds of the economy, because it was masked by the incredible run in technology, led by

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