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UCS Afternoon update

Good afternoon everyone. Como sea todos. No this is not a Spanish blog, its the AllThingsETF blog, where you get great advice, news and investment ideas on ETFs that have the potential to make you money. I'll be checking around town to see what's cooking in the stock market this week. So far its pretty quiet out there. Stepped out earlier today to run some personal errands and it was like an exercise in wasting gas. Arrgh! I got nothing done.

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