The day started out with the announcement that Bank of America would be laying off 16, 000 workers which helped sink the market, but better than expected jobless claims and a Philly Fed index that came in ahead of the consensus estimate, along with a solid IPO pop for real estate research site Trulia, aided the recovery in risk assets.
The notion of a bored Manhattan wife being hit on by a uniformed Russian brute is just the kind of solid, old-fashioned fantasy that Madonna, in her corseted pomp, would have fed into a pop video.