Stocks Shake Rattle and Roll

What a topsy turvy road stocks have been taking of late.  The sometimes suspect ADP new jobs reported more than 215,000 new jobs were created in November.  As I have been saying of late, this should have sent stocks soaring, but because a good economy could cause and earlier tapering of the $85 billion monthly purchasing of Treasuries and MBS bonds by the FED, stocks sold off sharply.  Only when the Beige Book painted a less healthy picture of the economy did stocks recover much of their losses.  The Dow was off 24 points on the day.