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Reminds me of the panic of 1907 caused by the SF earthquake. Not that I was there to remember. And the market reacts instaneously instead of waiting months to make its move. But this is looking like it might be the worst natural disaster since that earthquake.

EUR is 1.2344 +0.0049

Bonds up 13/32. Hooray!

Look at natural gas. Up 22%. I wonder how bonds will open.....

70!!!

Most of them actually shut down yesterday.

I don't know the specifics, but I heard on the news that Exxon has already closed many of it's rigs in the Gulf. I'm not sure what percent of their business that accounts for.

I think oil will rise and oil stocks will lag or stay flat. Oil companies will be hurt by their lost production and damaged rigs and refineries.

I totally agree with this. However, oil is the least "perfect" commodity. It's price often has little to do with demand, supply, production costs, etc. But economic law still holds with manipulated markets.

Hurricane Katrina appears to be heading towards the LA/MS/AL area http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2%2Bshtml/145105.shtml?3day?large. If this happens, it will hurt the rigs and refiners in that area. I wouldn't be surprised to see oil up sharply on Monday. As an aside, ever since...

Customize chart colors. I have trouble with the current colors since I am red-green color blind. I prefer blue and red.

You can't, but I can. (Boy I wish that were true.)

I can't speak for everybody, but I have no load problem with DDE.

I've been watching this for a while and every day is different. Sometimes, they move in the same direction and sometimes they move opposite and sometimes they have no correlation.

Been drifting lower every since. Just what I want to see (I'm short the S&P).

At the same time (give or take), stocks shot up and bonds dropped. It was a very weird move. But now stocks are moving back down, though bonds are staying down (which is good because I'm buying here).

Why not go with IB and use their Excel DDE spreadsheet? Last week, I entered 7 simultaneous trades in 4 different accounts with no problem.

Somehow, I knew it was our fault the Hutus and Tutsi are fighting. If only we had a smaller trade deficit.... "that most insignificant object of modern policy, the balance of trade" Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

"The big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements—that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend." Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

I don't get it. The questions on Millionaire get harder as the game goes along. Most people stop because they feel they won't be able to answer the harder questions.