Thursday Links

First, great news. First time applications for unemployment benefits hit a 5-year low.

Market news, waiting: will PSX hold its gains? Apple looks like it is having a healthy rebound; Wall Street is playing the small retail investor like a fiddle. Gotta love it.

So, in early morning trading: the market must have like the unemployment numbers (first time unemployment benefits). PSX is up almost another dollar. It looks like BRK will flirt with a new high. Union Pacific Railroad has already hit a new 52-week high. Oil is up almost another dollar; solidly above $94. 

WSJ Links

Section D (Personal Journal): Nothing of interest.

Section C (Money & Investing):
Investors grapple with core reality of Apple.

Section B (Marketplace):
Wow -- AT&T stalking Europe for mergers.

A health scare for small businesses; ahead of ObamaCare -- small firms worry about crossing the 50-person threshold. Yup. And big businesses with move to 29-hour work week wherever possible; more out-sourcing.

Section A: Nothing of interest. Not even the op-ed page. Sorry.