Equities Fractionally Lower on Ennui, Dollar Index Falls Like Cherry Blossoms in Gentle Spring Rain

Stocks closed generally mournful and reflective.

Currency devaluation reflects silently on still and glassy water.

Auspicious update, below.

DJIA down 0.01%, Nasdaq down  0.06%, S&P up 0.08%.
DXY down 0.20%

Credit (blame) The Onion for much of the above.

UPDATE:

Invest in Kirin

Mindfulness overrated

Sensei insensate

An oldie but goodie whose re-publication is due to re-reading another oldie but goodie from Cassandra Does Tokyo, September 7, 2013 (some things never change)

Haiku time:

Cassandra Does Short Form Market Commentary

Tesla's Recoil

Buying blocks of Tesla
Roman candles! You shuffle
off this mortal coil.

ZeroWhinger

Got any Gold? I do...
Glass is always half-empty
The game's frickin' rigged!

...MORE , including an invitation

Cassandra home

 2012 was the year that usage in finance seemed to take off-
We linked to BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis commenting on Google:

Click prices decline,
 by double digits again,
 mobile is worth less.

FT Alphaville's Joseph Cotterill used the format to discuss Europe:

Five seven five / Is unsustainable, so / Haircut to seven

 One of the following is an autumnal haiku composed on Twitter by Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council. But which is it?

...Wet leaves, brown, rotting
Keep bloody slipping on them
Look, Spain metaphor

A season of mists
And of mellow fruitfulness
But not you; you’re Greek

...MORE

And Cassandra herself tipped us to "Largest Ever Insider Trading Ring Used Kōans, Haiku to Transmit Information"

While the best I could muster was:
Asian Markets Fall Like Cherry Blossoms in Gentle Spring Rain