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Another Ho-Hum day in the markets as rates rise a touch, Wall St dips a bit and our market might as well not have bothered. Banks and Resources asleep while some of the defensive stocks hold their form. The slowness of the vaccine roll-out is becoming a political issue in Australia  but there's no rush and the Australian economic resurrection is not relying on it. 0.6% of our population have been vaccinated against 39% in the UK and 32.9% in the US. Low infection countries are the same as up. NZ is only at 0.4% and Japan 0.2%. With not much else to go on, today's strategy section includes an article about Warren Buffett quotes and the suggestion that if you have some wisdom to impart, impart it, because regurgitating the wisdom of others does little more than confirm your lack of it.