General merchandisers have been lousy places to be, because management has not delivered and that format is very hard to pull off these days.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Capital markets performance was excellent, a blow-out quarter.

It's a reminder that the political uncertainties and the exciting areas of the world to which you have to go to find this stuff, leave oil vulnerable to supply disruptions.

The boom in western Canada's resource economy will help Canadian Pacific.

The underlying drivers of this market - resources, energy - are continuing to run very strongly at record highs in copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, gold ... oil prices are back to 68 bucks a barrel despite this wonderful, balmy weather we're having.