http://quote.yahoo.com/m2?u

http://money.cnn.com/markets/morning_call/










http://www.kitco.com

Energy futures

A resistance test as we bang up against the previous all time high of 26/4. All Ords +1.2% with Materials way out in front, +2.9%. Healthcare at the other end, flat.

In the miners, BHP and RIO screaming green, both up around 3%. The golds up around 2% apart from Newmont which remains stubbornly red, -2.1%.

Oils up but the action relatively muted. A bit of a do or die situation on the price of crude atm.

All bullz over in Asia: China +2.7%, Honkers +1.2% and Singers +1.2%.

Wow, that chart looks like futures feel off the cliff. But actually SPX is only down .70 at the moment.

Are we fresh out of holidays this week?

getting ready to go as short as I've gone since 8/30/01...

but I'm real tired of telling people when I pull the trigger...

but I'll do it anyway...

I know nothing...

(I did short FDX at the close friday)

All Ords just poked through into record high territory today, closing +1.2%. Materials still leading the sectors, +3.2% and Utilities was the only red, -0.1%.

BHP attempted a new high but didn't quite make it however RIO managed to hit blue sky. Both closed up over 3%. Golds also put in a respectable innings although Newmont failed to hit green.

Oils looked fairly ordinary, slipping a little during the arvo.

A big run in Asia: China +3.9%, Honkers +1.6% and Taiwan +1.4%.

Over to UK/Europe:







http://quote.yahoo.com/m2?u

Duck Joke Interlude-

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A duck walks into a bar and orders a martini.

The bartender figures the duck probably doesn't know much about money and charges him $50.

Then the duck orders a beer and is charged $60.

The bartender remarks to the duck "You know, we don't get too many ducks in here."

The duck says, "At these prices, I'm not surprised."




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Guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head.

The bartender says "That's the ugliest ape I've ever seen."

Guy says, "This isn't an ape, it's a duck".

Bartender says "I was TALKING to the duck".



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Guy walks into a bar, carrying a crocodile and a duck.

He says "I'll have a Scotch and Soda."

Then the crocodile says "And I'll have a Whiskey Sour."

The dumbfounded bartender gasps "That's incredible; I've never seen a crocodile that could talk!"

And the guy says "The crocodile can't talk; the duck is a ventriloquist."


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Guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head.

Bartender asks, “Can I help you?”

The duck says, “Yeah, Can you help get this guy’s head out of my ass?”




That last one quacks me up.

So these 3 ducks walk into a bar and order beers.

The friendly bartender serves up the beers and asks the first duck "So, what's your name?"

Duck says "Huey".

Bartender says, "Didn't know ducks like beer, Huey."

Huey says, "Yep, had a hard day down at the pond. Beer's good after that."

Bartender says to the second duck, "And what's your name?"

Duck says "Duey".

"Hard day, too?"

Duey says, "Yea, I was in puddles all day. Beer's good after that."

Wiser now, Bartender says to the 3rd duck, "So, you must be Luey."

Duck says, "No, I'm Puddles."

They hired this 75 year old guy from Arkansas at Walmart...

NAME:
Kenneth Way (Grumpy Bastard)
SEX:
Not lately, but I am looking for the right woman (or at least one who will cooperate)
DESIRED POSITION:
Company's President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be applying here in the first place ?
DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.
EDUCATION:
Yes.
LAST POSITION HELD:
Target for middle management hostility.
PREVIOUS SALARY:
A lot less than I'm worth.
MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT:
My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes!
REASON FOR LEAVING:
It sucked.
HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK:
Any.
PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?:
Yes, but they're better suited to a more intimate environment.
MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?:
If I had one, would I be here?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 lbs.?:
Of what?
DO YOU HAVE A CAR?:
I think the more appropriate question here would be "Do you have a car that runs?"
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?:
I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, so they tell me.
DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job - no!
On my breaks - yes!
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?
Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde supermodel who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.
NEAREST RELATIVE....7 miles
DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR
KNOWLEDGE?: Oh yes, absolutely.

....are you surprised?

I note that UTH, the utilities ETF is up with a real big white candle.

But they show it paying no dividend. Whassup with that?

Is there some other utilities ETF that does pay a divi?

Anybody else having trouble with the page reloading very slowly?

For that matter, IS there anybody else?

A duck walks into a drugstore and says to the clerk, "I'd like a tube of Chap-Stick".

The clerk retrieves one and looking skepticly at the duck says, "will that be cash or charge?"

The duck replies, "Just put it on my bill"

"no mans land"
no dividends like the individuals!
PEG 3.5% dividend
CNP 4.9% dividend

Looks like EP is picking up steam...
DYN? 2 of the fab 4 like this one..50% chance they are right! I bought it...

Thanks, Tzu. I'll check 'em out.

Anybody else having trouble getting this page to reload? I have to go back to the main page and then come back here -- otherwise it just sits there trying unsuccessfully to reload.

Oil going down, dow and naz going higher...Have a great day!

I noticed that the next FOMC meeting is May 10, a Wednesday and it is a one day meeting, not two. Anyone know why it isn't on the usual Tuesday?

Yes, Drano, check XLU, another ETF now down.

XLU does pay a div. Tzu's CNP looks good. They're also in the nat gas pipeline business. Don't know it that's a plus or minus right now, what with the current smackdown of energy stuff.

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That Ebay feed is killing this site.

Is that what's doing it? I'm pretty effing frustrated with the impossibility of reloading the page.

Picked up some PPP. Feels like we are trapped inside the DMZ, no man's land.

Wow. CDY keeps rockin'.

Any and all political upheavals, coup attempts, financial meltdowns, nationalizations, etc. are to be bought with a vengeance.

Buying on weakness resulted in a huge score.

I'm now 3 for 3 in my Peruvian mining stocks.

The Derivatives Parabola continues unabated.....

Everyone loves trading them.

Kathie Lee resubstantiated....

Did somebody manage to fix the site? I was FINALLY able to reconnect.

Subprime ARM lenders on fire, thank to GDW and other bank's voracious appetites for mortgage lenders.

CFC and WM jump the creek, breaks out to new, all-time, lifetime highs....

FDX pulling back, as predicted. On an oil pullback day, to boot. Classic PigMan $3 run-up on Morgan down grade and, oil rise, and poor consumer numbers.

My other bottom-picking longs are working good so far....

I'm up 54% on CHN

Good link on SIL volatility.

He thinks we'll re-visit the nationalization problem again...

Up 20% on my NAT, plus 1 qtr. of dividends.....

Barely up on my VLCCF, but still in the green....

From the "Is this a great country or what?" Dept.....

Drudge Report running an instapoll on "Should Bush Bomb Iran?"

Perhaps this is the future...instant Internet polling of the American public to decide which countries to blow up next. Kind of like the thumbs up/thumbs down plebiscites in the Roman Coliseum to decide the fate of the gladiator. Only this time, we decide the fate of nations instead.

The wonders of technology, I suppose...

I dono. I still think that if those companies were doing anything other than mining copper their stockprice would still be heading for splashdown. There are safer ways to play copper...

Full Blown Meltup in foreign ETF's continues...

I spoke too soon about the site being fixed. Still effing impossible to reload the page, got to go back to the main page, and sometimes it lets me back here. And sometimes not.

Is this site slow or did I mix up my vitamins and amphetamines?

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Bung

We could be on the verge of a Massive Weimar Meltup.

CBOE Put/Call Ratio is skying again today.

And despite Friday's breakout, the Rydex Indexers are still fully hedged.

Full Blown Boner in Coca-Cola

Bung, site is not just slow, impossible to reload at least for me.

So I continue to find excuses to post, because that's the only way I can reload the page eastily.

I have been having problems for 9 european hours now
It is so bad I went to check my register for a tasking program

Attention Wndy: is this an okay entry point for PPP? In the Weimar meltup scenario wouldn't some of these low p/e energy related stocks skyrocket?

A work-around if you can't get the page to re-load:

Use the link to go back to the previous page, then use the link on that page to come back to the current page. So far that's been working for me but reloading does not.

Sorry about the off topic, but the thought of amphetamines brings back stories my PAW would tell about the Korean and Vietnam wars..

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Bung

I am using Firefox, its fast and its EBay or the adverts free.

I'm using Firefox too, Feed, but I'm still having the problem with reloading.

If they are adding reserves then they will if the hole is drying up then won’t. My mission is to buy explorer with new finds with expanding reserves

I am on IE 6 and it will reload but leave a blank space for 90 seconds with the message ready
I get about 6% or my real ADSL speed so something is slowing that down to a crawl