Throughout most of this wild market year, we've seen stocks behaving more
like an on-off switch than a dimmer. It's either been a big, suffocating bear,
or a full-tilt boogie bull. The latest example of these volatile price extremes
came over the past couple of weeks, as the mood in the markets was convincingly
bearish on the big selling leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. Then we saw
great Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which wet bullish appetites, and that
was followed by the news of a coordinated action by the world's biggest
central banks that will essentially provide private banks easier access to
dollars. That news prompted huge buying in stocks that pushed the Dow up nearly
500 points on
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