Add to this the many other factors that could be having an impact on the stock market, and it may be difficult to filter through the noise and draw a definitive conclusion.

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And yet it is possible to view the same scene and draw the opposite conclusion.

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Perhaps, it was an opinion based on information gathered, analyzed and parsed to draw the conclusion-that was now being stated as fact.

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