People were anticipating the worst and the worst case news didn't come through.

[In his Sept. 12 news story] CDC Starts Difficult Task of Recording Hurricane's Effects, ... Numerous studies have shown that people infected with the AIDS virus can safely stop their drugs for a week or so with no bad results.

If the judgment is that there's blood on Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) hands, ... there's blood on the FDA's hands as well.

The Enron news may have been enough to distract people today, or if not, then maybe kept investors to the sidelines to take a look at what their position is on some of the companies that they were buying. However, it did have a drag on the market,

We don't see any appreciable improvement from what we've already had before us. The good news is that people want to get there.

If indeed this area is still being strongly considered, I think it's good news for Midland and Lubbock,