For Investors Only -- Market Surges; Oil Pulls Back

Midday trading.

Oil has pulled back about 2% but the overall market surges. Trading at new 52-week highs: AXAS, BHI, HES, REX, SLB, SYRG, TRGP, UNP.

Synergy's core area of operations is the Denver-Julesburg Basin (D-J Basin), which encompasses Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska. All of the company's production to date coes from wells in the Wattenberg Field in the D-J Basin which ranks as one of the most production fields in the US. -- from Synergy's website.

The Wattenberg field is in the northeast corner of Colorado. 

Netflix rose almost 6%. 

Housing is struggling.

First Financial announces two-for-one stock split; increases quarterly dividend 7.7%: Co declared a two-for-one stock split in the form of a 100 percent stock dividend. 

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Nothing New Under The Sun

From Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement, c. 2008, page 138:

In the little tan institute at 15 Blegdamsvej in Copenhagen, [the world's most famous physicists] have gathered in the main lecture hall in late 1932 for what George Gamow called the "customary stunt." Gamow himself is not present, since Stalin -- already "dizzy with success" while Gamow's native Ukraine is purged and starved -- refused him a passport to "fraternize with scientists of the capitalistic countries."

And so it goes.