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Valuation levels are decent across the market at this point, and the earnings expectations bar is set so low that there is little room for disappointment.
But the notion that somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point.
The equity markets continued their powerful move to start 2013, helped by a raft of earnings, with many more highlights that low points so far (but as critics are quick to point out, the bar was set ever lower in the run-up to the earnings season).