The fact that oil broke close to US$60 today caused a drop in S&P 500 energy stocks.

We have invited a number of global energy players to explore oil in our country and share production with us.

If you look at it from a tire manufacturer's perspective, an oil price increase is a triple whammy for us, ... Oil is a major ingredient in the production of tires. It affects the cost to make tires, it affects the cost to heat or cool the plant where we make tires and, of course, the trucking cost to ship the tires.

Oil moved higher, which kind of hurt us. We're in a kind of a tight range today, nothing really exciting about the day.

This was not a year for macro-sector bets -- whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, got extremely frustrated. This was the year of individual stocks.

The oil price and the rally on Wall Street will definitely help us move higher today.