My bearish positions are taking care of themselves, so I’m going to go on a mini-rant for a moment.

From time to time, I’ve mentioned one of my hundreds of pet peeves is the outsized efforts of advertisers to diversify. I realize I am probably one of the most left-wing people on Slope, but in spite of that I’ll go on record as saying my being irked by these forced mash-ups of races doesn’t come from racism, but realism.

I present to you, from my morning inbox, a snippet from an item that Hilton Hotels sent me, encouraging me to use their Hilton App to check into my room this Friday night.

And so ends the most boring trading day of the century. We’ll lighten the mood – – ‘cuz I’ve got zilch to say – – by honoring the country which is, for the moment, driving every equity on the planet, evidently.