Once they sold the credit-card business, what was left was the store chain, which is not particularly impressive.

The normal business of hairdressing takes place out front but there are other less mundane activities happening elsewhere on the premises.

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.