Hey BrookeCE thanks for the response. I'm a little worried that...

Hey BrookeCE thanks for the response. I'm a little worried that the market will get spooked big time when (I say when, I suppose I mean if although I'm 95% sure) they don't taper further.

The market has the opposite opinion to me because all the finance/economics guys and gals over there just continue to blindly write off every bit of poor data as a mere bump on the road to boom town. Surely though the fed at least has to have some people awake enough to be worried by the numbers out over the last week or two and will take a conservative approach for a little while. They haven't just been a bit bad they've been aweful, especially the jobs data.

I might be contradicting myself here in that I think continuing with q/e at current levels is needed for stability while also thinking that doing so will destabilise the stock market at least initially, but I think we will see modest falls until the announcment and then a big drop when it comes in against expectations.

Put me down for -174 please.