And while pre-marketing may not render much by way of price discovery, investors appear to welcome an early look at would-be public companies and companies can gain perspectives on how their offerings may be received in terms of central themes and key metrics.

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So at this point in the economic recovery he would probably welcome a stock market pullback of at least enough to alleviate the bubbly look of its current overbought condition.

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