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

The oil price remains high and that might help energy companies. Otherwise, it's a mixed picture.

Energy stocks should find support in the oil price and the earnings news will support the broader market. It is difficult to see any negative factors.

Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and gas industry proved this session that they do not want to negotiate with landowners and compensate them fairly for damage to private property. This controversy isn't going away.

If Iraq becomes free and stable, we will have a major oil producing country that can help us stabilize the United States oil partnerships. If we were to give Iraq a loan rather than a grant, it would have been perceived by the Iraqis as if we're trying to ease them out of their oil money.

The oil price has had its most severe drop in years. Meanwhile people are starting to wonder if this quick war scenario we are all anticipating is realistic, so we are seeing huge swings between asset classes.