This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of nomorefunnybusiness from the president.
This is why Wall Street could care less about emerging markets, and cares more about the pitiful growth in the US. Funny, no quotes from the head of the US business or the head of the European business.