Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
- The record-setting initial public offering (IPO) from Visa (V)...
- Hopes the Visa (V) IPO "will revive the sleepy market for new shares"...
- Earnings from Adobe Systems (ADBE)...
- Earnings from Morgan Stanley (MS)...
- Loosened capital restraints on Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM) so "the mortgage-finance companies can expand their roles in the stricken housing market"...
- A look into why shares of Bear Stearns (BSC) are trading well above the $2 "buyout" price...
- A look into the pay for Bear Stearns' (BSC) Chairman Jimmy Cayne...
- A call by Jim Rogers for the rally to continue...
- Concerns that "the Fed is too easy on Wall Street"...
- A look into yesterday's bullish "Double Nine-To-One" signal...
- Also, there is a note on Marketwatch that
Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (TMA) had suspend its dividend...
While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is the video below called "karate_chimp", courtesy of Mark "Obsessed-with-Darren-Rovell" Fightmaster -
And yet no one believes me when I talk about a potential animal uprising. The only question is - who are the collaborators that are helping to train the animals to fight? No good can come of this...
Though I must admit that, a close runner-up story is this - Dollars tough to sell - "The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money..."
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