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An ugly day today as iron ore continues to fall and banks give it up. Defensive stocks doing okay. Tech getting wrecked. We look at the Buffett indicator which agrees with a few US strategists that having doubled in 18 months the market is precarious. We look at the shuffling nickel sector and wonder whether the takeover interest might filter down to the minnows (one day). Most of the brokers don't like Macquarie after their update yesterday but what would they know, they've been wrong so far. Mao Tse-tung and Michael Buble finish us off.