chief equity strategist at Deutsche Bank. Binky, it's great to speak with you. Uh, and let's start right there because so far and maybe Netflix and Texas instruments notwithstanding, it does seem like it's been a a pretty strong earning season.>> Uh, yeah, I think you know, bigger picture, one wants to keep in mind that basically over the last two years, uh, S&P 500 earnings have basically bobbed up and down around 11% earnings growth. 11% earnings growth happens to be uh the historical average outside of r ...

Take While the S&P 500 has defied virtually every warning in the past six months, clocking one of the best stretches since the 1950s, this October gap indicates some investors are covering their shorts ahead of the "It's not easy to short this market because it feels like this rally is never going to end," said Thomas Thornton, founder of Hedge Fund Telemetry, who has a small net short position in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 Index. "It's painful and discouraging to get your face ripped off everyday."B ...