Shaking it off. Stocks soared yesterday, with the dow once again topping 14,000. The s p is reclaiming 1,500. Gold lost 18, and oil inched up. It could be a rough day for jc penny and groupon following earnings. After the close, jcp shares fell 10 . The retailer racked up more losses. And groupon fell 29 in heavy trading because of poor earnings. And the senate voted to confirm jack lew as the new treasury secretary. The final vote was 7126. We are ready for liftoff on this thursday with Mark Sebastian to take a look at trading. He is with option pit mentoring. Good morning to you. Should investors worry today about the sequester . I dont think so. I really dont think so. If you watch the political channels, they are talking about it. If you walk around the floor, nobody is really talking about it in terms of Financial Markets. And nobody seems to really care. And if the Financial Markets were really worried about this thing, we would have seen them selling off, as opposed to yesterday
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