Putin Content with Just Crimea; For Now

Stocks followed up yesterday's strong advance with another good day of equity trading.  Much of which had to do with Vladimir Putin being a relatively good boy by not annexing any new territory today.  Tomorrow we will find out how the Fed's change from using the employment levels as their gauge for determining when to taper the ongoing accommodation program will affect markets.  The Dow closed up 88 points today at 16,336.