I've redesigned the search box in the sidebar hoping that more people use it. When content goes off the front page it disappears into the archive, but all you have to do is search for it. When I switch to a real CMS (content management system) next month, I'm going to make good use of the categorization of entries. Being able to read all the entries on, say, Crude Oil with a single click should improve things around here.

My favorite song from Kill Bill Vol. 2 is Shivaree's "Goodnight Moon." (I think Ambrosia Parsley was born in 1971 so she's about my age.)

On an unrelated note, the new MyYahoo! keeps on dropping my right-column content so I have to re-load the page every time I go there -- it's a pain. It also looks like they've doubled the footprint of the ad they run at the top of the page... I never see ads at Yahoo because I block them (block ads.pointroll.com, folks), but having a full inch and a half at the top of the screen as dead space is another annoyance when visiting.

Early movers this morning:

The coil scanner picked up ERTS. Electronic Arts hit an all-time high earlier this year above $55... in 1990, ERTS hit a low of around $0.38 a share. Show me the investor who has been able to pick the winners among all the game maker stocks? I guess you just buy 'em all and let Duke Nukem sort 'em out.

(I'm dating myself here, I know... I've never played "Need for Speed Underground" or any other PlayStation2 games after a friend warned me that they're more addictive than crack cocaine.)

ERTS, 30-min. Chart

This chart doesn't reflect the overnight trading -- Crude is trading around $50.50 here in London -- but you can see that price is at an all-time high.

How long has Adam Sieminski been repeating this line about the "near term":

Light Sweet Crude futures, Daily Chart

China's new wealth clashes with party-boss influence, by Robert Marquand:

Hedge funds of funds booming, by Pauline Skypala:

You can find yesterday's Unusual Suspects on the Unusual Suspects page. Two airlines showed up on the list: JetBlue and NorthWest... I didn't realize that JBLU's market cap is over three times the size of NWAC's. And two air courier stocks continue to show up on the list day after day: Air T (AIRT) and World Airways (WLDA).