WASHINGTON – Tuesday stock market action gave us all a nice rest from the regular daily hammering we’ve experienced since the New Year began. Putin and the Fed continue to drive investor bets and market averages alike as CNBC duly noted after Tuesday’s closing bell. And as Putin and the Fed go, so go US markets as stocks yo-yo relentlessly day after day. Without any conviction at all. “The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose for the first day in four on Tuesday after Russia appeared to be backing away from an immediate invasion of Ukraine, cooling geopolitical tensions that have knocked the stoc…

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