Have A "Fun" Options Expiration Day

• I'm working on "other stuff" today, so enjoy these quick random links and thoughts


• Bloomberg reviews this morning's top stories


• Oil jumps Nigerian threats


• Enjoy it while it lasts - gas at the pump drops below $2 bucks a gallon in some spots


• Much ado about Bernanke


• Despite all of the bulls' hopes and the bears' fears, mid-term election years tend to trade sideways for the first nine months of the year


• "I am an optimist. But I am an optimist who takes his raincoat." - Harold Wilson


• If history repeats, the sentiment gap between the bulls and bears won't always be sustained


• Do small-cap stocks really pay? Mark Hulbert runs the numbers


• One-week high-volume gainers & losers


• Consistency in performance is always a challenge


• What has Hodges been up to lately?


• The safe and cheap approach


• Avoiding losses and protecting your assets is just as important as making your money work for you


• Are exchange stocks are overvalued?


• Bernanke isn't concerned about our empire of debt


• Does Asia have a currency-reserve bubble?


• A glut in new homes and not enough buyers?


• So what else is new? The newsletter gurus are confused about the housing sector


• Biotechs pump big money into flu research


• Commodities could become more popular than hedge funds among institutional investors


• Bigger and broader are no longer better on Wall Street


• Unlike the U.S., France talks tough about Iran


• Getting sore at the market doesn’t get you anywhere


• You must be kidding - Merck (MRK) finds its way to the new 52-week high list


• It's a bear market in integrity


• I actually know traders who monitor sunspot & lunar cycles for their trading


• America's most shareholder-friendly companies


• A smart money stock screen


• I need to start watching insider trading more closely


• A hedge fund index?


• Hedge funds turn to poety ($)


• Daniel Gross and the business of blogging


• Next time I fly, I think I'm going to Fedex my suitcase. Last year, airlines lost 10,000 bags a day


• 10 technologies that will change your life in the future


• "Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer." - Leo F. Buscaglia