It's always nice when central banks turn on the spigots and give the economy a jolt in the arm. But in the end, if those efforts don't actually result in gains, they're meaningless. That's why today's promising data showing that existing-home sales rose a much greater than expected 7.8% in August was particularly useful, as it takes QE3 and its previous incarnations out of the realm of theory and shows actual hard results. Largely on optimism from that report, the Dow Jones Industrials
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