Friday Links

Remember that story about high-frequency trading and "a high frequency trading event about 400 milliseconds before the scheduled EIA storage data release"?
RBN Energy takes a look at high-frequency trading in the energy markets:

These events resurrected ghosts of EIA storage numbers past and inspired our examination of these developments in the context of the evolution of high frequency trading in energy markets.

CNBC: why is oil up in price?

• First talking head: oil is part of the rising tide: equities are rising; the euro is rising; bad economic data --> weak dollar --> interest rates won't be raised any time soon --
• Second talking head, obviously bullish: he said it was about the recent stories of the "bounce back" in China. This bounce back in China has been discussed at the blog

WSJ Links

Section M (Mansion): did not read

Section D (Arena): save for later
KKR net surges on stake sales; the firm paid out more cash to its investors than any other year in the firm's history. Now, why in the world would I link this story. Because KKR is in the Bakken and it's posted on the blog.

Section B (Marketplace):
For AMR, a vast new network; from another source but I think same story

Now on YouTube: return of copyright woes -- big headache for Google

787 probe indicates fire was caused by short

Section C (Money & Investing): nothing
Section A:
Yesterday or the day before, I forget, I mentioned "Medicare" on one of my posts. "Anonymous" commented on it but I really couldn't add anything: the issue is way too complex to talk about in the comment section, and it's even too complex to talk about in postings on a blog (not that that inconvenient truth will stop me -- smile) -- but this is what I was really thinking about when I mentioned Medicare: defensive medicine may be costlier than it seems -- the headline for an op-ed in today's WSJ