Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a shortened trading week. I won’t gripe about this three-day weekend as much, since I actually consider the holiday at hand to be legit, although I’ll still be grinding my teeth at the lengthy time away from the keyboard.

This day begins, of course, with oil, which is the big change from the last few weeks in which some bank disaster or another was the news of the day. This time, the global energy cartel has decided to poke its best customer in the eye, and although it’s off its highs from the initial spike, oil is still up about 6%.