"Defensives had a better time of it last week, particularly following Friday’s payroll miss. The yield curve steepened a bit as well, as traders made some tweaks to their assumptions about near term tapering & rate hikes as well as the longer term inflation outlook. Overall, though, the picture didn’t change a whole lot, as markets mostly treated the payroll and consumer confidence numbers as small bumps in the road rather than any kind of major turning point in the recovery."

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