The markets concluded a week of extraordinary volatility by closing down for the day, though up for the week.
"Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets" concluded the chief justice, "not to destroy them".
Interest rates had fallen sharply as markets concluded there was no good reason for rates to be much higher in one euro zone country than another.
The markets concluded that this made an early increase virtually certain, and the pound rose above $2 again, reaching a 26-year high.But what matters now is the future direction of monetary policy.
Although the government is trying hard to find other markets, concluding a host of free-trade agreements with Latin American countries and negotiating broader economic pacts with the European Union and India, the United States remains by far Canada's biggest trading partner, buying 73% of goods exported last year and supplying 63% of imports.
In a comprehensive review of the issue earlier this year, Better Markets concluded that, if the SEC follows this misguided approach to economic analysis, it will effectively kill financial reform.
"The days of Dell growing at two to three times the rate of the market," concluded Richard Gardner, a Citigroup global markets analyst, "are gone forever".
Sobotka's team, relying on pessimistic assumptions about the future of the housing market, concluded that a write-off of nearly eight billion dollars was justified.
Clearwire's stock slid on the news, as the market concluded that Sprint would now be uninterested in acquiring the remaining shares.
Yet an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission into Google's position in the US market concluded in January that its search presentation did not harm consumer choice.
