By Monday, the grand bargain was dead, House Republicans and Senate Democrats were scrambling to put together rival bills, and all the available options for resolving the debt ceiling increase would have negative impacts directly for the US economy, and indirectly on the global economy.

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Truth is, for investors dead-set on disciplined bargain-hunting, the recent run-up may mean the group is no longer ripe for investment.

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