Both private equity firms and strategic chemical buyers should have an interest. There could be even more value in a breakup of the six business segments.

The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern for investors.

[Increased interest rates might also mean a smaller pay raise as well as a more gradual increase in the value of your investments. But slower may be surer.] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people were getting 10 percent pay raises, ... But housing prices were going up 12 to 15 percent, and so were cars.

The pig is already out of the barn as far as the effects of the yield curve on net interest margins. Margins will probably get modestly worse, but it won't be dramatic because the real negative impact has been absorbed.

There was interest in having an event that had a little higher buy-in. Something that would be different, be fun, and give poker pros a chance to show their all-around skills.

There has just not been the kind of interest being expressed to justify that move.