That initial flight to quality bid on the back of softer overseas equity markets has been present all day.

It's been an uninspired, insipid day of trading. We are biding time for the next big report.

We estimate between a 5 to 8 percent loss of present day gaming revenues.

There's the temptation to update 'The Odd Couple,' to put it in present-day time. I've seen productions like that and I didn't like them.

That's a violation of our Webmaster quality guidelines, specifically the principle of 'Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users'.

The results were impressive to say the least. The outlook for consumer spending is a bit brighter than it was a week or so ago.