Kincade, in fact, is not even talking about the NHL All Star game at all as punishment. (The Fan is airing the play by play of the game itself Sunday.)

The Zone's African American audience has flocked to the 2 Live Stews, the most successful black sports talk duo in the country. (Dickey said about 73 percent of the Stews audience was black in the fall vs.

Reflation Contemplation

High interest rates in the US, and lower rates at home, meant that the dollars invested by Beijing in the US earned the central bank more than it was paying out in local currency bills. But the monetary policy cycles have now abruptly reversed. Rates are falling in the US but rising in China, where the government is tightening credit to fight inflation and cool some sectors of the economy. As a result, China's central bank will be paying about 250 bps more on the bills it issues at home than it gets on US Treasuries... Simple mathematics suggests that Beijing is losing billions of dollars as a result, an amount amplified if the impact of China's appreciating currency is taken into account."

January 31 - Bloomberg (Gavin Finch): "The Swiss franc rose to a record high against the dollar as widening financial sector losses and a decline in stocks prompted investors to sell higher-yielding assets...

Oil Climbs Toward $91, Fog Slows US Imports

Oil rebounded sharply toward $91 a barrel on Monday as dense sea fog slowed crude imports into the Houston Ship Channel, the waterway to the busiest U.S. petrochemical port.

The gains reversed heavy losses last week that were triggered by fresh signs of economic weakness in the United States, the world's biggest energy consumer.

"We held the key support above $88 and then fog closed the Houston Ship Channel," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago.

£20m splashed out in cricket auction

Strange, too, that a cricketer who only a month ago was a hate figure in India after alleging that he had been racially abused should be offered more than £100,000 a week to play in Hyderabad.

Behave Or Else

Whole departments bond through group salad days.

The reason? You might say the health-care system is morbidly obese. Businesses are facing not only a more competitive global market and soaring shareholder expectations but also the inefficiencies and excesses of a voracious medical system. Workers are expensive. And unhealthy workers are the most expensive of all. In any given year, 10 percent of them account for 70 percent of the health-care costs.

Venezuela Threatens to Cut US Oil

The U.S. buys 65% of his countries high sulfer crude. The U.S. also supplies over 1/3 of the food consumed in Venezuela as well as the great majority of consumer goods (Cars, refrigerators, electronics, ect). As much as he might rail against the U.S., he knows that his country depends on 4/5 of its revenues from Oil sales, and must import food to feed his citizens.