Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.

Supply isn't going up as much as demand so the prices of metal, especially that of copper and zinc, are going up.

This will continue so I'm not too worried about these various demonstrations. We're just being used by various parties to hit at each other.

He has brought a new dynamic to the leadership contest and will put pressure on some candidates who perhaps are struggling for support.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.