<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782</id><updated>2012-02-16T09:31:27.087-08:00</updated><category term='porkbellies'/><category term='dow'/><category term='pappa bear'/><category term='federal reserve'/><category term='mid day market report'/><category term='fish'/><category term='basketball'/><category term='darth beat'/><category term='bear stearns'/><category term='koala bears'/><category term='wachovia'/><category term='chicago bear'/><category term='grizzly'/><category term='average'/><category term='3/4'/><category term='spirt bear'/><category term='poll'/><category term='eucalyptus'/><category term='u.s. home 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type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>46</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-188542795088234293</id><published>2008-11-12T11:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T11:24:26.114-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear sterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><title type='text'>Market free fall...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="sfe-break-right" valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div class="g-section g-tpl-110 news"&gt;&lt;div class="g-unit"&gt; &lt;div id="fix-w-wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="fix-w" class="news major"&gt; &lt;span class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;amp;sid=aU8ijqyX6ZO8&amp;amp;refer=home" rel="nofollow"&gt;Paulson Shifts Focus of Rescue to Consumer Lending (Update3)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt; &lt;span class="src"&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span class="date"&gt;59 minutes ago&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="snippet"&gt;By John Brinsley and Robert Schmidt Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson plans to use the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue program to help relieve pressures on consumer credit, scrapping an effort to buy devalued &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="rel-article"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2008/db20081112_328286.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;Mandel: Paulson's Shift Is Just a Start&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span class="byline"&gt; &lt;span class="src"&gt;BusinessWeek&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="rel-article"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/11/12/briefing-midday-tarp-markets-econ-cx_ss_1112markets22.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;TARP Gets A Twist&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span class="byline"&gt; &lt;span class="src"&gt;Forbes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="rel-article"&gt; &lt;span class="byline"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/11/10/daily28.html" rel="nofollow" class="rel"&gt;Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111201124.html?hpid=topnews" rel="nofollow" class="rel"&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a class="more-rel" href="http://news.google.com/?ned=us&amp;amp;ncl=1269482384" rel="nofollow"&gt;Related articles »&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;table id="sfe-mktsumm"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="indices"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI"&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span id="ref_983582_l"&gt;8,379.43&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_983582_c"&gt;-314.53&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_983582_cp"&gt;(-3.62%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="indices"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP:.INX"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span id="ref_626307_l"&gt;862.76&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_626307_c"&gt;-36.19&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_626307_cp"&gt;(-4.03%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="indices"&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span id="ref_13756934_l"&gt;1,516.69&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_13756934_c"&gt;-64.21&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr" id="ref_13756934_cp"&gt;(-4.06%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt;10y bond&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3.64% &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-0.06&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-1.62%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDEUR"&gt;USD - Euro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;0.7964 &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-0.0036&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-0.45%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDJPY"&gt;USD - Yen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;95.5300 &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-1.9400&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-1.99%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDGBP"&gt;USD - GBP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;0.6663 &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chg"&gt;+0.0156&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chg"&gt;(2.39%)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="sfe-home-chart" valign="top"&gt; &lt;span class="name"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="SP_legend0" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/s/m4C5KaofCbA/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt; Dow &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="name"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="SP_legend1" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/s/m4C5KaofCbA/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt; S&amp;amp;P 500 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="name"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="SP_legend2" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/s/m4C5KaofCbA/images/cleardot.gif" /&gt; Nasdaq &lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI,INDEXSP:.INX,INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://finance.google.com/finance/chart?cht=c&amp;amp;q=INDEXDJX:.DJI,INDEXSP:.INX,INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC" alt="Market Chart" height="130" width="230" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-188542795088234293?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/188542795088234293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=188542795088234293' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/188542795088234293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/188542795088234293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/11/market-free-fall.html' title='Market free fall...'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-1776939256334265960</id><published>2008-11-10T16:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T16:41:42.024-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear sterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><title type='text'>It's time to hibernate!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://asymptotia.com/wp-images/2008/02/knut_polar_bear_cub.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 360px;" src="http://asymptotia.com/wp-images/2008/02/knut_polar_bear_cub.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Y&lt;/span&gt;ou ever feel like you hit a wall? Yeah, well - I hit one a few months ago and it still hurts. I like to scratch my back against the wall, but I don't like being up against the wall. It might sound strange at first, but if you think about it, that's how life is sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So a relative of mine was stuck in a moat for a long time, what else? President-elect Barack Obama visited the White House today in Washington, D.C. The market was up today, but then rose as China said it would spend 600 billion but ultimately the dow fell almost 88 points and GM finished the lowest loss in 62 years. AIG is a thorn in my side BTW, that's it - I gotta itch ta' scratch and then it's nap time, like for a few months.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-1776939256334265960?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/1776939256334265960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=1776939256334265960' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1776939256334265960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1776939256334265960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-time-to-hibernate.html' title='It&apos;s time to hibernate!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2802275129769759603</id><published>2008-09-29T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T14:50:17.566-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wachovia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='citi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bail out'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economic misery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='778'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='worst drop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow'/><title type='text'>Hear Me Roar! Dow Drops 778 points, in worst loss ever.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.our-valley.com/2006/photos/32-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.our-valley.com/2006/photos/32-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"RRROOOAAAARRR!" - Stern Bears&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2802275129769759603?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2802275129769759603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2802275129769759603' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2802275129769759603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2802275129769759603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/09/hear-me-roar-dow-drops-778-points-in.html' title='Hear Me Roar! Dow Drops 778 points, in worst loss ever.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-8915554564251954342</id><published>2008-09-08T10:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T11:03:58.965-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fannie may'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='favre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market summary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freddie mac'/><title type='text'>Freddie's Back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 141px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wall Street, New York&lt;/span&gt; Sunday is the best day to lay back, get fat, and watch football. Period. Yesterday was more exciting than most Sundays for more reason than just because Green Bay woodsman is now a New York Jet. Why? Well, unless you have been hibernating, the Japanese markets have been up for 12 hours and the American counterparts are following today on news that Uncle Sam has bought out debt-ridden megaliths, Freddie Mac and Fannie May.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't tell you how many goddamn times I've heard junior brokers saying that these entities are "Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States." Today the Fed ponyied up, grew up, and saved us some rough times ahead. I am against regulation, fire control, and rangers in our national parks but otherwise I'm a staunch conservative ready to sink his teeth into the next bite of market share or I can wrestle from the arms of the weak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freddie and Fannie have made this possible again today as the market looks tender with a feast in sight. It' good to be back Rarrr!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-8915554564251954342?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/8915554564251954342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=8915554564251954342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8915554564251954342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8915554564251954342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/09/freddies-back.html' title='Freddie&apos;s Back!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6688559296298079303</id><published>2008-06-19T12:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T12:52:44.841-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bearish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear sterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear stearns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear'/><title type='text'>Putting Bears in Jail.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York, New York Zoo -&lt;/span&gt; "This is utter Bullshit, what are we, cows? The Fed is out of control! That moderate loon, Bernanke, ought to get a good mauling, that's right - we are Stern Bears and we stick together - Rarrr!&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6688559296298079303?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6688559296298079303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6688559296298079303' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6688559296298079303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6688559296298079303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/06/putting-bears-in-jail.html' title='Putting Bears in Jail.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-1993816866424133824</id><published>2008-04-11T16:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-11T16:57:14.722-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><title type='text'>Boo Hoo cry me a river!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wall Street- &lt;/span&gt;So the market underperformed, we all have, I don't see what the big deal is. GE allegedly shook consumer confidence, we'll if GE still wants to be known for incandescent light bulbs, no shit there stock is down. So what can we do, re-invent the microwave? No, we have go natural and think like a bear... instinctual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would I do If I was in charge of GE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I'd go for it. They can't afford to play second fiddle - I Doubt the airline woes helped out this week, but still produce - you are GE!&lt;br /&gt;2. Crush the competition... How? See number 1 for Produce.&lt;br /&gt;3. Take a day off and take a walk in the trees. If we are going to capitalize on the "green" thing, you are going to have to "think" like a bear and git-r-done, Rarrr! &lt;a href="http://faqnews.wordpress.com"&gt;See More at FAQ News Net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="t1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="rs2"&gt;&lt;th colspan="3"&gt;Indexes&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24INDU" smnu="10080" smtk="$INDU"&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;12,325.42&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s5"&gt;-256.56&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24COMPX" smnu="10080" smtk="$COMPX"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,290.24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s5"&gt;-61.46&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24INX" smnu="10080" smtk="$INX"&gt;S&amp;amp;P&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,332.83&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s5"&gt;-27.72&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/TC10Y" smnu="10008" smtk="TC10Y"&gt;10-Yr Note&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;100.22&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s4"&gt;+0.56&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-1993816866424133824?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/1993816866424133824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=1993816866424133824' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1993816866424133824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1993816866424133824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/04/boo-hoo-cry-me-river.html' title='Boo Hoo cry me a river!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-5233684377998937591</id><published>2008-04-01T14:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T14:31:41.492-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern'/><title type='text'>Daily market Update with Stern Bear CEO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly... F*ck yea. Today was awesome. Real Awesome. Dougy... that means you. Sometimes I have to break out of my shell and be the frat bear I am. Sometimes I just want to kick ass and take names. Today was one of those days. No April Fools gold here, all bears pulled together and roared forward, I'm proud of you... even Sugar Bear, who couldn't make it to work even if he wasn't sitting on a trust fund and his royalties as a pretty good singer back in the day. F*ck yes Bears, 10 year notes were down, but we'll pull together and work together and PRODUCE. ROOOAARRRRRR!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="195"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk0" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=1643" class="pumpkinIndex" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(0);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;DJIA&lt;span id="DJI_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_l"&gt;12654.36&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_c"&gt;391.47&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_p"&gt;3.19%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk1" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3291" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(1);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;span id="NCM_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_l"&gt;2362.75&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_c"&gt;83.65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_p"&gt;3.67%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk2" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3377" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(2);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;span id="SPX_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_l"&gt;1370.18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_c"&gt;47.48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_p"&gt;3.59%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk3" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=4166" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(3);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;Russell&lt;span id="HIUX_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_l"&gt;710.65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_c"&gt;22.68&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_p"&gt;3.30%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk4" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=1753650" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(4);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;10-YR Note&lt;span id="USTYN_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_l"&gt;3.556%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changeNegTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_c"&gt;-1 4/32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changeNegTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_p"&gt;-1.12%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-5233684377998937591?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/5233684377998937591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=5233684377998937591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5233684377998937591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5233684377998937591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/04/daily-market-update-with-stern-bear-ceo.html' title='Daily market Update with Stern Bear CEO'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-4619654562017489437</id><published>2008-04-01T11:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T11:08:47.204-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><title type='text'>Rarr Markets Up - Rarr!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2007/02/10/dlphot3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2007/02/10/dlphot3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ALASAKA--Rarrr! Markets are up all over the place. I'm in the market for some fresh fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Rarrr! Frrrrreesssshhhh Fiiiiiiisssssh!!!!!!!!!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-4619654562017489437?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/4619654562017489437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=4619654562017489437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4619654562017489437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4619654562017489437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/04/rarr-markets-up-rarr.html' title='Rarr Markets Up - Rarr!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-8648390093687608285</id><published>2008-03-31T20:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T20:19:29.851-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugar bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honey bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theme song'/><title type='text'>Sugar Bear Theme Song</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SANTA CRUZ-- Hey what's popping baby doll? It's sugar bear and I bring the sweetness. That's Right, just keeping the dream alive and shaking my sh*t around town for the honey bears that Sugar Bear likes so much. Dum de dum I got a theme song for everything, dum de dum, i'm Sugar Bear. Yeow... now check out my chest hair.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-8648390093687608285?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/8648390093687608285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=8648390093687608285' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8648390093687608285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8648390093687608285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/sugar-bear-theme-song.html' title='Sugar Bear Theme Song'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6815790745416470238</id><published>2008-03-27T10:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-27T10:43:53.934-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><title type='text'>Market Update with Stern Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPACE-TIME-- "Guess what, there was no market update yesterday because I had to go to the strip club and I'm a bear... is that reason enough for ya Rarrr!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6815790745416470238?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6815790745416470238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6815790745416470238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6815790745416470238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6815790745416470238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/market-update-with-stern-bear.html' title='Market Update with Stern Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-522931355531735873</id><published>2008-03-25T19:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T19:55:18.492-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='naked'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bare assets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bare'/><title type='text'>Who put me on digg! I feel so disrobed!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11379174_eae937c9c3.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11379174_eae937c9c3.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is Teddy Bear reporting for the Stern Bears, and god am I upset and Embarrassed. This is like the Worst. When Stern Bear CEO Finds out tomorrow he will have my hide. Ursa Major to think, my bare assets are for the world to see, this is so not funny! Stop it! Stop it! Leave me alone humans, I'm a market bear, a market bear - let me do my job."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-522931355531735873?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/522931355531735873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=522931355531735873' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/522931355531735873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/522931355531735873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-put-me-on-digg-i-feel-so-disrobed.html' title='Who put me on digg! I feel so disrobed!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2350882071826713329</id><published>2008-03-25T17:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T19:35:56.367-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teddy bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market summary'/><title type='text'>Daily Market Update with Teddy Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11379174_eae937c9c3.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11379174_eae937c9c3.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Moody says JPMorgan is unaffected by a certain recent buyout, I am though, plum tuckered. All this he-said she-said, bear-bull has got me frumpy. I wish I could visit the Hoover Dam, but I'm stuck in a f**king playroom." &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-24016694.htm"&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table id="main" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="width: 2%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/cleardot.gif" height="1" width="20" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="hp_column_width_2" valign="top"&gt; &lt;div class="hdg"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Market summary&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="25"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap;"&gt; Mar 25 - Close   &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;div style="padding: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI%20INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC%20INDEXSP:.INX"&gt;&lt;img alt="market_chart" src="http://www.google.com/chart?cht=lfi&amp;amp;chc=finance&amp;amp;chs=230x130&amp;amp;chd=s:aZhgZRJHJLLKFCFKIIMOMOMQRSQOOMJPSTVWXVVWaYXTVXXZcbabfigigeecYYZcgijhghgggcdaWYZ,bcqsiZNPUXXWTPVdddhkijgklmjhccZgjkmopnppspnjlnoqutqtx4355220xxxz368647899531zy2,adomeVMMQSUSNKPVTTXZXaYcdfcbaYWcfgijkikkolkgikkmrpnptxuwvssqnnnqvxyxuwvvvrrokln&amp;amp;chco=4684ee,dc3812,ff9900&amp;amp;chlr=%2B0.81%25%7C%2B0.40%25%7C0.00%25%7C-0.40%25%7C-0.81%25&amp;amp;chp=2&amp;amp;sig=smMZjQUmUwerH4UjM3rD6f4vo6g" onerror="showDJIChart(this)" border="0" height="130" width="230" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;img id="time_axis_img" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/time_axis_labels.gif" border="0" height="24" width="230" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;table id="mktsumm" cellpadding="" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="indices" valign="middle"&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;" width="25%"&gt;&lt;img id="indexDot0" class="hsprite" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/cleardot.gif" height="10" width="10" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=983582"&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt;&lt;span id="ref_983582_l"&gt;12,532.60&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chr" id="ref_983582_c"&gt;-16.04&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chr" id="ref_983582_cp"&gt;(-0.13%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="indices" valign="middle"&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;" width="25%"&gt;&lt;img id="indexDot1" class="hsprite" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/cleardot.gif" height="10" width="10" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=13756934"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt;&lt;span id="ref_13756934_l"&gt;2,341.05&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chg" id="ref_13756934_c"&gt;+14.30&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chg" id="ref_13756934_cp"&gt;(0.61%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="indices" valign="middle"&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;" width="25%"&gt;&lt;img id="indexDot2" class="hsprite" src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/cleardot.gif" height="10" width="10" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=626307"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt;&lt;span id="ref_626307_l"&gt;1,352.99&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chg" id="ref_626307_c"&gt;+3.11&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="25%"&gt; &lt;span class="chg" id="ref_626307_cp"&gt;(0.23%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr style="height: 1em;"&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;"&gt;10y bond&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3.50%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chg"&gt;+0.02&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chg"&gt;(0.57%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDEUR"&gt;USD-Euro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;0.640&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-0.0094&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-1.446%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDJPY"&gt;USD-Yen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;100.020&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-0.5700&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-0.567%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDGBP"&gt;USD-GBP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;0.499&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;-0.0052&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="chr"&gt;(-1.037%)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="width: 1%;"&gt; &lt;img src="http://finance.google.com/finance/images/cleardot.gif" height="1" width="2" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2350882071826713329?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2350882071826713329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2350882071826713329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2350882071826713329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2350882071826713329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-market-by-google-bear.html' title='Daily Market Update with Teddy Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-4423488193402782552</id><published>2008-03-25T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T15:12:00.402-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clear channel'/><title type='text'>Daily Market Update with Chicago Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Jk_oC3RAkWUJ:http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/uploaded_images/chicago-bears-logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 98px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Jk_oC3RAkWUJ:http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/uploaded_images/chicago-bears-logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;CHICAGO--First off... make clear Clear Channel happen. What is this BS? I want a full market report in my den in ten, New York is Going to have my hide! How many advertising dollars do I have to dish out? What is McCain straight talkin' about today? The man is a hunter. We have to look past the party, we have to make deals happen, so sign on the line which is dotted!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-4423488193402782552?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/4423488193402782552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=4423488193402782552' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4423488193402782552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4423488193402782552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-market-update-with-chicago-bear.html' title='Daily Market Update with Chicago Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-8710749274967281185</id><published>2008-03-25T06:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T06:39:21.747-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lenders'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='options'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foreclosure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='properties'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='u.s. home prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interest rates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='america'/><title type='text'>Good Morning Wall Street.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;NEW YORK-- "A glut of foreclosed homes is starting to drive down U.S. home prices as lenders put more properties on the market and buyers show signs of interest. The ability of lenders to manage this fire sale will be crucial to determining how long the housing market stays in the dumps. If I may add my own personal opinion, I think this interest should be higher, who is kidding who? We make the best products in the world, got the most bombs, and its almost time for those damn yankees to take to the field, play ball America! Rarrrr!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-8710749274967281185?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/8710749274967281185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=8710749274967281185' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8710749274967281185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8710749274967281185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-morning-wall-street.html' title='Good Morning Wall Street.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-49197595056290775</id><published>2008-03-24T15:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T15:36:11.791-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall stret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mercy flush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear stearns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deal'/><title type='text'>Mercy Flush &amp; Market Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://icwdm.org/Images/bear/PolarBears_img_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://icwdm.org/Images/bear/PolarBears_img_0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;NEW YORK--J.P. Morgan Chase has agreed to quintuple the price it will pay for Bear Stearns to $10 a share, hoping to stem criticism that the banking giant was getting too sweet a deal to snap up the ailing investment bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="195"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk0" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=1643" class="pumpkinIndex" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(0);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;DJIA&lt;span id="DJI_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_l"&gt;12548.64&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_c"&gt;187.32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="DJI_p"&gt;1.52%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk1" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3291" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(1);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;span id="NCM_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_l"&gt;2326.75&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_c"&gt;68.64&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="NCM_p"&gt;3.04%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk2" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3377" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(2);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;span id="SPX_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_l"&gt;1349.88&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_c"&gt;20.37&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="SPX_p"&gt;1.53%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk3" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=4166" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(3);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;Russell&lt;span id="HIUX_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_l"&gt;701.28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_c"&gt;19.86&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changePosTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="HIUX_p"&gt;2.91%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk4" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=1753650" class="unvisited" onclick="ApplyLinkStyle(4);document.images.marketsChartPZN.src=this.href;return false;"&gt;10-YR Note&lt;span id="USTYN_o"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" class="p10" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_l"&gt;3.558%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changeNegTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_c"&gt;-1 26/32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="changeNegTen" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-top: 1px;" align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span id="USTYN_p"&gt;-1.79%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-49197595056290775?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/49197595056290775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=49197595056290775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/49197595056290775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/49197595056290775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/mercy-flush-market-update.html' title='Mercy Flush &amp; Market Update'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-4753755236078144124</id><published>2008-03-24T06:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T07:27:52.541-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quarter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chase'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceo'/><title type='text'>Rarrr - Let's have a hell of a week.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(New York) Stern Bears has built itself on its power, pride, and quick underhand claws. We aim to continue this behaviors throughout the quarter as we push to give Chase everything they dreamed of. We have a new den and a new home. So now that everyone is awake from hibernation (Chicago Bear!) &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We can work together to deliver fast, accuarte market updates without all this bicker from our cast of characters here at stern bears. Lets the 2nd quarter begin, and remember that Stern Bears is always number one. Now go get some of that scratch! -Stern Bears CEO&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-4753755236078144124?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/4753755236078144124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=4753755236078144124' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4753755236078144124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4753755236078144124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-lets-have-hell-of-week.html' title='Rarrr - Let&apos;s have a hell of a week.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-7250064601831632224</id><published>2008-03-21T14:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T15:05:16.254-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nasdaq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sp 500'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='currency'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weekend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow'/><title type='text'>Daily Market update with Stern Bears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WALL STREET-- This is the final update for Friday, March 21st, 2008. I would politely ask that Monkey get off the Stern Bears Blog and don't make me ask you again. Have a good holiday weekend everyone. Rarrr!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="quotes"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="first highlighted" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:INDU', 'Dow', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:INDU');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;&lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=INDU&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;12,361.32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;261.66&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:COMP', 'Nasdaq', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:COMP');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=COMP&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes up delayed" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;2,258.11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes up delayed" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;48.15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:SPX', 'S&amp;P 500', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:SPX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=SPX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;1,329.51&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;31.09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:TNX', '10 YR', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:TNX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=TNX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;10 YR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;3.33%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;-0.03&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:CL08K', 'Oil', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=2157579&amp;symb=US:CL08K');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=CL08K&amp;amp;sid=2157579"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$101.84&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;$-0.70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr class="last" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:GC08J', 'Gold', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=2337992&amp;symb=US:GC08J');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=GC08J&amp;amp;sid=2337992"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$920.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;$-25.30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-7250064601831632224?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/7250064601831632224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=7250064601831632224' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/7250064601831632224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/7250064601831632224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/market-update-with-stern-bears.html' title='Daily Market update with Stern Bears'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-3974731941279208687</id><published>2008-03-21T14:43:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T14:52:10.059-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial times.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear sterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hey jude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ft.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monkey'/><title type='text'>Hi Bears! I, Monkey, wrote for the Financial Times (Cover your ears!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lovesanimals.com/images/animals/monkey/funny_monkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.lovesanimals.com/images/animals/monkey/funny_monkey.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO- Penned this during a quiet moment. To the tune of Hey Jude. Not great but it’s a start! And I am sure there will be many more come Monday&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/14/11609/one-anagram-for-bear-stearns/?source=rss"&gt;FT.com Original&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;by Monkey&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bear Stearns, don’t feel too bad&lt;br /&gt;Have a bank loan to make it better&lt;br /&gt;Remember to pay back JP Morgan&lt;br /&gt;Then you can start to make it better&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Bear Stearns don’t be afraid&lt;br /&gt;For the FED will come in and save you&lt;br /&gt;Whenever a big bank looks to be binned&lt;br /&gt;They will step in to make it better&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;And anytime you feel the pain, Bear Stears refrain&lt;br /&gt;From buying those Triple A securities&lt;br /&gt;Well don’t you know that’s it’s a fool who breaks the rule&lt;br /&gt;And borrows more than they can afford to&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Bear Stearns! You took write downs&lt;br /&gt;But where you mark loans, you can’t sell them&lt;br /&gt;Remember, to run with lower leverage&lt;br /&gt;And maybe to hedge against your debtors&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;So take the loan and ignore the din, Bear Stearns begin&lt;br /&gt;To repair your completely shattered balance sheet&lt;br /&gt;And don’t you know that its not just you, but Lehmans&lt;br /&gt;Too, whose shares are tumbling in the market&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Bear Stearns, don’t feel too bad&lt;br /&gt;Have a bank loan to make it better&lt;br /&gt;Remember to pay back JP Morgan&lt;br /&gt;Then you can start to make it better&lt;/p&gt;   Cover your ears, I got more hits a'coming!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-3974731941279208687?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/3974731941279208687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=3974731941279208687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3974731941279208687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3974731941279208687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/hi-bears-here-is-poem-i-monkey-wrote.html' title='Hi Bears! I, Monkey, wrote for the Financial Times (Cover your ears!)'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-1609867478082513305</id><published>2008-03-21T14:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T14:37:43.855-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear stearns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><title type='text'>Market update with Mother Polar Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dphotojournal.com/wp-content/polar-bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.dphotojournal.com/wp-content/polar-bear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NORTH POLE--Rrroooaar! Who is talking to my &lt;a href="http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-snow-day.html"&gt;polar cub&lt;/a&gt;, I see comments from a wolf! I have to report the market news now Raoooaar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stocks will enter the final week of the first quarter with investors hoping to build on nascent gains scored after the near-collapse and subsequent bailout of investment firm Bear Stearns.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="StoryBottom"&gt;         &lt;div class="p"&gt; Supportive actions by the Federal Reserve, a stronger dollar, and a plunge in commodities prices all seemed to mark a key turn in the credit crisis gripping markets. &lt;/div&gt;              &lt;div class="p"&gt; "The Bear Stearns story was kind of like the turn-around everybody was waiting for," said Paul Nolte, director of investments at Hinsdale Associates. "In any crisis, things keep getting from bad to worse until something breaks. In this crisis, something did break and that was Bear Stearns."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;              &lt;div class="p"&gt; After a week rocked by even wilder swings than those witnessed since the start of the year, stocks recovered to post their first weekly gains in four weeks, even if the week was shortened by the Good Friday holiday. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="quotes"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="first highlighted" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:INDU', 'Dow', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:INDU');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;&lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=INDU&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;12,361.32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;261.66&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:COMP', 'Nasdaq', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:COMP');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=COMP&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes up delayed" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;2,258.11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes up delayed" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;48.15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:SPX', 'S&amp;P 500', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:SPX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=SPX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;1,329.51&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;31.09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:TNX', '10 YR', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=&amp;symb=US:TNX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=TNX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;10 YR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;3.33%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;-0.03&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:CL08K', 'Oil', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=2157579&amp;symb=US:CL08K');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=CL08K&amp;amp;sid=2157579"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$101.84&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;$-0.70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr class="last" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:GC08J', 'Gold', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;size=1&amp;type=256&amp;uf=8192&amp;time=1dy&amp;freq=1mi&amp;sid=2337992&amp;symb=US:GC08J');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=GC08J&amp;amp;sid=2337992"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$920.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;$-25.30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;div id="MarketOverviewChart"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-1609867478082513305?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/1609867478082513305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=1609867478082513305' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1609867478082513305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1609867478082513305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/market-update-with-mother-polar-bear.html' title='Market update with Mother Polar Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6114627475732140030</id><published>2008-03-21T09:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T10:01:28.136-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow day'/><title type='text'>it's a snow day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfondideldesktop.com/Images-Animals/Bear/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow.Jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.sfondideldesktop.com/Images-Animals/Bear/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow.Jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UP NORTH-- It's so chilly right now, it's time to go home! It's a snow day... tick tock, tick tock, when is one o'clock? yeah!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6114627475732140030?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6114627475732140030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6114627475732140030' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6114627475732140030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6114627475732140030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-snow-day.html' title='it&apos;s a snow day!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6705813772076679701</id><published>2008-03-20T15:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T15:08:06.951-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow'/><title type='text'>Dow "Roars" back with 261 points!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;NEW YORK-- A rally erupts on Wall Street as some analysts say the worst of the credit crisis may be over. The Dow industrials climbed 261.66, or 2.2%, to 12361.32, leaving the blue-chip indicator higher by 3.4% at the end of a volatile week. Shares of banks and brokerages surged, including gains of more than 10% for Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. Oil and gold prices continued to decline!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6705813772076679701?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6705813772076679701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6705813772076679701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6705813772076679701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6705813772076679701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/dow-roars-back-with-232-point.html' title='Dow &quot;Roars&quot; back with 261 points!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6156872864011746663</id><published>2008-03-20T06:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T08:28:10.384-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bracket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basketball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='average'/><title type='text'>Rarrr! There is money to be made!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(New York) As the Stern Bears CEO, I'd like to congratulate those of you that are working so hard. With all this March Madness in the Money sector, it's hard to think about anything else. For instance, I wanted to watch some Sports Center last night, and Rarrr! The market bombs. So yesterday wasn't reassuring at all, but no matter... the clear cutting must continue. I think we all know what I'm talking about when I joke about cutting down trees. Making money, and that is no joke. There is so much money to be made today its ridiculous, so lets think offensively and just bull rush this bear market until we got some heavy profit on our paws. Let's do it bears, lets do it for the dow jones industrial average rarrr!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6156872864011746663?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6156872864011746663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6156872864011746663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6156872864011746663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6156872864011746663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/hot-damn-there-is-got-money-to-made.html' title='Rarrr! There is money to be made!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-9070453247343284907</id><published>2008-03-19T13:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T13:31:20.413-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plunge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><title type='text'>Daily Market update with Stern Bears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(NEW YORK) Dow finishes down 12,099.66&lt;span class="down"&gt; or 293.00 points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="breakingNewsContent"&gt;The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by almost 300 points, giving back a significant portion of the previous session's 420-point rally. Commodities prices plunged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Stocks declined, failing to sustain the prior session's huge advance, which was stirred by the Fed's rate cut and strong profits at investment banks. Commodity prices plunged, with gold and crude-oil futures seeing steep losses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rarrr!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-9070453247343284907?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/9070453247343284907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=9070453247343284907' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/9070453247343284907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/9070453247343284907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-market-update-with-stern-bears_19.html' title='Daily Market update with Stern Bears'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2047232199542671758</id><published>2008-03-19T06:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T06:37:34.018-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web 2.0'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><title type='text'>WTF Wednesday: Up, down, how about we lay down...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(CHICAGO) Tired with a capital T, yes - I am going to rest until I get washed around 10:00, then I have good bear behavior lessons at 11:30 where this guy is going to talk to me ALL ABOUT web 2.0 and how he has ALL THESE STUPID IDEAS about. My big hairy ass! How come he works at a zoo and talks to animals "Golly, I'm getting outta here one day." HA HA HA That is a joke. So I'm busy today and unfortunately, very sleepy too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2047232199542671758?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2047232199542671758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2047232199542671758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2047232199542671758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2047232199542671758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/wtf-wednesday-up-down-how-about-we-lay.html' title='WTF Wednesday: Up, down, how about we lay down...'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-518128865095246648</id><published>2008-03-18T13:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T13:25:38.995-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='t'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interest rates'/><title type='text'>Daily Market Update with Stern Bears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Dow finishes up 420.41 Points, or 3.51%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DJIA*    12392.66    420.41    3.51%&lt;br /&gt;Nasdaq*    2268.26    91.25    4.19%&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500*    1330.74    54.14    4.24%&lt;br /&gt;Russell*    681.93    31.45    4.83%&lt;br /&gt;10-YR Note    3.472%    -1 14/32    -1.43%&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-518128865095246648?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/518128865095246648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=518128865095246648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/518128865095246648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/518128865095246648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-market-update-with-stern-bears.html' title='Daily Market Update with Stern Bears'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-3825416902673402050</id><published>2008-03-18T12:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T12:26:45.752-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='3/4'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rate cut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='federal researve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bernancke'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='.075'/><title type='text'>Fed cuts rate .075 percent</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(NEW YORK) "A divided Fed cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25%, delivering less than the markets hoped for despite the magnitude of the move. The central bank highlighted growth risks, but discussed inflation concerns. The vote was 8-2 on the move."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-3825416902673402050?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/3825416902673402050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=3825416902673402050' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3825416902673402050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3825416902673402050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/fed-cuts-rate-075-percent.html' title='Fed cuts rate .075 percent'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-3695731564266575204</id><published>2008-03-18T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T12:31:16.699-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darth beat'/><title type='text'>Mid-Day Market Update with Panda Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.animalpicturegallery.net/animal-picture-panda-bear-ucumari-animalpicture.jpg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHQ3mTz58Tgiwlrut4bDqUKZi5N1Q"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.animalpicturegallery.net/animal-picture-panda-bear-ucumari-animalpicture.jpg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHQ3mTz58Tgiwlrut4bDqUKZi5N1Q" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(BEIJING) Oh you again! The US market is acting very favorably today, the DOW up almost 280 points right now. This is due to large impending interest cuts, you can read a post from earlier today by Darth Bear, on why that is so important. &lt;a href="http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/darth-bear-in-house.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now it is also important that China's market goes up to. I will put the US market points below, and believe me, I want them to fall - good day for USA, bad day for China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="t1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24INDU" smnu="10080" smtk="$INDU"&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;12,249.78&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s4"&gt;+277.53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24COMPX" smnu="10080" smtk="$COMPX"&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,233.72&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s4"&gt;+56.71&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/%24INX" smnu="10080" smtk="$INX"&gt;S&amp;amp;P&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,312.05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s4"&gt;+35.45&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://moneycentral.msn.com/index_quote/TC10Y" smnu="10008" smtk="TC10Y"&gt;10-Yr Note&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;100.81&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="s5"&gt;-0.81&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-3695731564266575204?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/3695731564266575204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=3695731564266575204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3695731564266575204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/3695731564266575204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/mid-day-market-update-with-panda-bear.html' title='Mid-Day Market Update with Panda Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2654012215181922992</id><published>2008-03-18T09:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T09:18:30.411-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lehman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='federal reserve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rally'/><title type='text'>Mid Morning Rally according to Stern Bears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(NEW YORK) Stocks soared, led by big jumps in many financial stocks, after Goldman and Lehman posted better-than-expected earnings and as investors looked ahead to what many expect will be a deep cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"RARRRRRRRRRRRRR!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2654012215181922992?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2654012215181922992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2654012215181922992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2654012215181922992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2654012215181922992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-york-stocks-soared-led-by-big-jumps.html' title='Mid Morning Rally according to Stern Bears'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2535809174891799282</id><published>2008-03-18T09:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T09:14:55.743-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugar bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='california'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beach'/><title type='text'>It's all good with Sugar Bear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA) I just picked up the coolest blue t-shirt, a little hot in La Jolla to rock it on a day like today, and with all the sweet honey around here, hot damn! I think we all know by the look on my face just how happy I am about all that fine honey around here, oh yeah... Sugar Bear!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2535809174891799282?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2535809174891799282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2535809174891799282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2535809174891799282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2535809174891799282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-all-good-with-sugar-bear.html' title='It&apos;s all good with Sugar Bear'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2259763589859491068</id><published>2008-03-18T06:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T06:55:14.877-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rate cut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darth vader'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='percentage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='darth bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><title type='text'>Darth Bear in the House.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spiritbearsinthecity.com/images/028_DarthBear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.spiritbearsinthecity.com/images/028_DarthBear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(ZAXXON) Good tidings. Darth Bear here... I have been sent to you by the emperor to command an interest rate of 1/2 percent on this part of your planet. Now as we all know the Fed cut the rate over a percent last time they got together. I am not asking for this change, I am commanding it. As Darth Bear I order to make this change immediately. A rate cut would allow investment banks to trade at a discount which would increase profits and thereby ad to a dominate empire. These are the days Darth Bear most enjoys... unemployment is on the rise, so 85,000 jobs have been lost in the last month and big money is changing hands. That means more people joining the military ranks my minions as their options are cut short. It's good to be the king, or at least serve my master.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2259763589859491068?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2259763589859491068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2259763589859491068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2259763589859491068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2259763589859491068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/darth-bear-in-house.html' title='Darth Bear in the House.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-8992742970133904235</id><published>2008-03-18T05:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T05:17:24.143-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grizzly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><title type='text'>OMG: I'm so not having this weather this morning.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(CHICAGO) Oh My God, I'm so not having this weather this morning. Yesterday I was in dreamland catching fish with Grizzly bear and lo and behold I wake up to find a crowd of people looking at me through the bars of a cage. And guess which side I'm on. Not only that, it's 46 F and raining. This is Sooo typical of Chicago this time of year, can some one throw me a frickin bone, seriously I'm starving and just came out of hibernation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-8992742970133904235?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/8992742970133904235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=8992742970133904235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8992742970133904235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/8992742970133904235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/omg-im-so-not-having-this-weather-this.html' title='OMG: I&apos;m so not having this weather this morning.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6401918072557449744</id><published>2008-03-17T14:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T17:27:41.379-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tech stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='closing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><title type='text'>Market update with Stern Bears</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(New York) Once again, all the &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LEH"&gt;drama &lt;/a&gt;was in the financial sector Monday and once again, the Nasdaq woefully underperformed. This is an all too &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=6m&amp;amp;s=%5EIXIC&amp;amp;l=on&amp;amp;z=m&amp;amp;q=l&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;c=%5EGSPC&amp;amp;c=%5EDJI"&gt;familiar pattern&lt;/a&gt; in recent months. Heading into Monday's session the Nasdaq was already in bear market territory (down more than 20% from its recent high) and had closed below its Jan. 22 intraday low a week ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="quotes"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="first highlighted" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:INDU', 'Dow', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=&amp;amp;symb=US:INDU');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;&lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=INDU&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Dow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;11,972.25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;21.16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:COMP', 'Nasdaq', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=&amp;amp;symb=US:COMP');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=COMP&amp;amp;sid="&gt;Nasdaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes up delayed" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;2,177.01&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes down delayed" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:COMP"&gt;-35.48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:SPX', 'S&amp;amp;P 500', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=&amp;amp;symb=US:SPX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=SPX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Price" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;1,276.60&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span class="mwlivequotes" mwfield="Change" mwformat=",2" mwsymbol="us:SPX"&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;-11.54&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:TNX', '10 YR', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=&amp;amp;symb=US:TNX');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=TNX&amp;amp;sid="&gt;10 YR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;3.31%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;-0.11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:CL08J', 'Oil', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=2157578&amp;amp;symb=US:CL08J');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=CL08J&amp;amp;sid=2157578"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$105.68&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="down"&gt;$-4.53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr class="last" onmouseover="marketOverview.delayShowTickerData(this, 'us:GC08J', 'Gold', 'MarketOverviewChart', 'http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1036&amp;amp;size=1&amp;amp;type=256&amp;amp;uf=8192&amp;amp;time=1dy&amp;amp;freq=1mi&amp;amp;sid=2337992&amp;amp;symb=US:GC08J');" onmouseout="marketOverview.stopShowTickerData();"&gt;   &lt;td class="symbol"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes/quotes.aspx?symb=GC08J&amp;amp;sid=2337992"&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="price"&gt;&lt;span class="neutral"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$1,002.60&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="change"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="up"&gt;$3.10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;div id="MarketOverviewChart"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6401918072557449744?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6401918072557449744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6401918072557449744' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6401918072557449744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6401918072557449744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/market-update-with-grizzy-bear.html' title='Market update with Stern Bears'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2198528692112503235</id><published>2008-03-17T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T14:34:31.528-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><title type='text'>Rarrr! Rarrr! Grrrr!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.urbandigs.com/bear_market_02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.urbandigs.com/bear_market_02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(New York) "Rarrr! Rarrr! Grrrr!" Lunch was so good, back to work, back to work. Gotta be a broker, gotta get the money, Rarrr!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2198528692112503235?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2198528692112503235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2198528692112503235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2198528692112503235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2198528692112503235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-rarrr-grrrr.html' title='Rarrr! Rarrr! Grrrr!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2751320249031269601</id><published>2008-03-17T13:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T13:29:33.806-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poll'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bearish'/><title type='text'>Q: How do we feel about the S &amp; P 500 right now?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=560,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://tickersense.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/17/blogger_sentiment_031708.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="Blogger_sentiment_031708" alt="Blogger_sentiment_031708" src="http://tickersense.typepad.com/ticker_sense/images/2008/03/17/blogger_sentiment_031708.jpg" border="0" height="234" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;               Answer: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bearish!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;                    (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tickersense.typepad.com/ticker_sense/2008/03/march-17th-blog.html#comments"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2751320249031269601?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2751320249031269601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2751320249031269601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2751320249031269601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2751320249031269601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/q-how-do-we-feel-about-s-p-500-right.html' title='Q: How do we feel about the S &amp; P 500 right now?'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-5586648945915713324</id><published>2008-03-17T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T13:20:31.110-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><title type='text'>I am really gonna need some advil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Chicago) I am really "out of it" I was sleeping for like I don't know, 3... 4... months. I don't even know, what I do know though is that they need to clean up the frickin' monkey cages in Lincoln Park Zoo. Pee-U!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alright so the Stern Bear CEO wants an update, here's an update.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired!, I'm sleepy!, I slept through football season &amp;amp; really need an Advil. That's MY frickin update.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-5586648945915713324?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/5586648945915713324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=5586648945915713324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5586648945915713324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5586648945915713324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-really-gonna-need-some-advil.html' title='I am really gonna need some advil'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6369596966875822016</id><published>2008-03-17T12:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T13:03:22.031-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spirt bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><title type='text'>Jodhpur Market Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/407862977_cfb31b34d1.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/407862977_cfb31b34d1.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Rajasthan , India) It has been reported that spirit bear has an on- location report from Jodhpur market in India.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Fruits and vegetables are selling &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;very well&lt;/span&gt; today. The Stern Bears suggest that you sell heavily today as these prices won't last. Their will be an influx from the Tamil region and the price of an onion may even drop by 50% by tomorrow at first bell."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6369596966875822016?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6369596966875822016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6369596966875822016' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6369596966875822016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6369596966875822016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/jodhpur-market-update.html' title='Jodhpur Market Update'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6956398138424321670</id><published>2008-03-17T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T11:48:20.324-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='st. patricks day.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceo'/><title type='text'>Rarrr. Happy St. Paddy's Day.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(New York) "Rarrr! as most of you know this is a big bear bailout day and like the weather, business could always be better. More sunshine, more picnic baskets or so it goes. And even though we all work hard to make bear-kind what it is today, we can't forget the little things that make getting up in the Spring worthwhile. So as the Stern Bears CEO, I would like to wish you all a very happy St. Patrick's Day to you, yours, and cubs wherever they maybe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stern Bear CEO&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6956398138424321670?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6956398138424321670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6956398138424321670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6956398138424321670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6956398138424321670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-happy-st-paddys-day.html' title='Rarrr. Happy St. Paddy&apos;s Day.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2943492469339952332</id><published>2008-03-17T11:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T11:24:36.048-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='australia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='koala bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eucalyptus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melbourne'/><title type='text'>G'Day from the Koala Bears!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.makalapa.k12.hi.us/Makalapa_Folder/HTML/adapt&amp;amp;survive/gs/koala.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.makalapa.k12.hi.us/Makalapa_Folder/HTML/adapt&amp;amp;survive/gs/koala.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Melbourne, Australia) "We love Eucalyptus leaves, Piggy back rides, and you! We are so cuddly and care free, we don't think about anything but eating &amp;amp; sleeping ALL day. We love you, we are the Koala bears from Down Unda!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are bears too and people always forget that!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We belly laugh and roll around the forest when no one else is here, we have disposable income when it comes to being cute, we are recession proof!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2943492469339952332?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2943492469339952332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2943492469339952332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2943492469339952332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2943492469339952332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/gday-from-koala-bears.html' title='G&apos;Day from the Koala Bears!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-6735104282729832758</id><published>2008-03-17T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T11:12:00.050-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beasr'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mid day market report'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>Panda's Mid-day Market Report</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.animalpicturegallery.net/animal-picture-panda-bear-ucumari-animalpicture.jpg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHQ3mTz58Tgiwlrut4bDqUKZi5N1Q"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 155px;" src="http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.animalpicturegallery.net/animal-picture-panda-bear-ucumari-animalpicture.jpg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHQ3mTz58Tgiwlrut4bDqUKZi5N1Q" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Beijing) The Dow is down about 80 points. This is very good news for China. The NASDAQ is down 40 points which is even better news for China, because to the NASDAQ, that is almost 2%. That is 1.83% as of yesterdays market close. S&amp;amp; P is down too. I don't know about American stock market, it is yankee trick. A Big Bear deal will go down later today, it will be the biggest Bear rescue in the history of Bears.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-6735104282729832758?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/6735104282729832758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=6735104282729832758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6735104282729832758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/6735104282729832758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/pandas-mid-day-market-report.html' title='Panda&apos;s Mid-day Market Report'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-535527596986500927</id><published>2008-03-17T08:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T08:50:06.582-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugar bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pappa bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honey bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><title type='text'>Wassup up baby doll?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 185px;" src="http://www.camelotbears.com/images/slothone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Santa Cruz) Chilly Chill y'all. Its sugar bear baby, so just cool it, and relax. So what is all this jive you be talking pappa bear? Grr Bear muttered some shit last Friday - did he say what I think he did?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dang dude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got to get back to my Honeycomb crunch, KIT, and keep it real baby, keep it real c-o-o-o-l baby.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-535527596986500927?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/535527596986500927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=535527596986500927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/535527596986500927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/535527596986500927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/wassup-up-baby-doll.html' title='Wassup up baby doll?'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-5168535608066884149</id><published>2008-03-17T06:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T06:52:44.587-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='porkbellies'/><title type='text'>Rarrr: We scr*wd the f*ck up, that's what happend.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(New York) "Good, I see the news has made it up to the Polar bears, so we now know what kind of animal we are dealing with here, and it is kinda of a big hairy deal."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I want market updates on my desk by the afternoon, so that includes porkbellies and fricken forest futures. Do you hear me? We need to make this happen. Let's get to work and we'll communicate later. There's work to be done."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-5168535608066884149?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/5168535608066884149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=5168535608066884149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5168535608066884149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5168535608066884149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-we-scrwd-fck-up-thats-what.html' title='Rarrr: We scr*wd the f*ck up, that&apos;s what happend.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-5222886209835397979</id><published>2008-03-17T06:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T06:54:35.292-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mamma bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='polar bear'/><title type='text'>Brrrr So ch-ch-chilly.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfondideldesktop.com/Images-Animals/Bear/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow.Jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.sfondideldesktop.com/Images-Animals/Bear/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow/Cute-Polar-Bear-Cub-Sitting-On-Snow.Jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(North Pole) "Oh, I just woke up too. What seems to be the big hairy deal? Mamma Bear is calling me, gotta go!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-5222886209835397979?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/5222886209835397979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=5222886209835397979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5222886209835397979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/5222886209835397979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/brrrr-so-ch-ch-chilly.html' title='Brrrr So ch-ch-chilly.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-4977788946956082623</id><published>2008-03-17T06:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T07:07:23.733-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cubbies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hibernation'/><title type='text'>Rarrr, I just woke up what happened?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://gardenpartyradio.com/wp/images/Sleeping-Bear.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Chicago) Hey this is Chicago Bear and I have questions. Why is it that some unforseen force had me awake from my slumber? Almost every year it's me who makes the decision to get up, but this year something told me I had to wake up, and man... what a dream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was on a fishing trip with Grizzy bear and we were horsing around, wrestling, growling, you know, the whole nine. Then we went fishing, i caught a fish in my mouth, like T-H-I-S big. It was really, really awesome. I'm so glad I had that dream, it kind of makes me hungry to think about it. That reminds me, I need to get out of this zoo and check out the cubbies sometime this Spring.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-4977788946956082623?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/4977788946956082623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=4977788946956082623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4977788946956082623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/4977788946956082623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-i-just-woke-up-what-happened.html' title='Rarrr, I just woke up what happened?'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-9165512529777012324</id><published>2008-03-17T05:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T05:30:56.566-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='two dollars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><title type='text'>Rarrr $2 can't even buy me breakfast.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/Bear-Grandfather-Mtn-Tim-Floyd-779608.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(New York) "Since when are we allowed to buy things on the weekend, or any time at all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean come on, we are bears!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if I had a lamb or goat and you had two dollars, do you think that I would share? Or even consider sharing a bite, like say, for two dollars a share? Hells no... we Sooo got the raw end of the bargain over here, two dollars can't even buy me breakfast. Rarrr!"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-9165512529777012324?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/9165512529777012324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=9165512529777012324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/9165512529777012324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/9165512529777012324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-2-cant-even-buy-me-breakfast.html' title='Rarrr $2 can&apos;t even buy me breakfast.'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-2119947199284808632</id><published>2008-03-16T17:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T18:10:05.780-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grizzy bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><title type='text'>Rarrr I'm so pissed off right now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s1600-h/Figurehead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 187px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s400/Figurehead.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178505311097044866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(URSA MAJOR) "This is the family figurehead... and damnit, you bears really went ahead and did it this time!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are going to get back to basics stat.  I want &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;constant daily updates&lt;/span&gt; and to know what is going on in the market. I'm so pissed off right now, and as family figurehead I can't believe how you bears have gone and screwed this up for me and bears in general. Thank God for the United States Bear Leniency laws and goddamn ranger rick looking out for all of us. I could've just shit when I became conscious of this un-bearable news. I'd be rolling over in the river if I were alive right now, I likely wouldn't have even heard till Monday if it wasn't for some Rarrrs I heard from Grizzly Bear. He was Pissed off? What's my name? Fuck you, that's my name. I Am Pissed Off. Half the reason we are where we are today is 100% poor management due to you Bears, so don't grumble - make shit happen. I'd slap you all with my claw if I could right now, and until you join me up in Ursa Major, you will listen to me roar in the collective bear consciousness. Remember, you work for me Bears! Rarrr!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-2119947199284808632?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/2119947199284808632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=2119947199284808632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2119947199284808632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/2119947199284808632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-im-so-pissed-off-right-now.html' title='Rarrr I&apos;m so pissed off right now!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R92_JL9pv4I/AAAAAAAAAJI/9HQT7yE7OTY/s72-c/Figurehead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367887093464793782.post-1098481282501684496</id><published>2008-03-14T14:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T18:09:27.138-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stern bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rarrr'/><title type='text'>Rarrr I have headache!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table padding="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="180"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="left" height="15" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk0" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=1643&amp;amp;a=4360952" onclick="com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.ApplyLinkStyle(0);com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.drawChart(0);return false;"&gt;DJIA*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;11951.09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;-194.65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="left" height="15" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk1" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3291&amp;amp;a=3033133" onclick="com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.ApplyLinkStyle(1);com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.drawChart(1);return false;"&gt;Nasdaq*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;2212.49&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;-51.12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="left" height="15" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a id="indexlnk2" href="http://chart.bigcharts.com/custom/wsjie/wsjie-sm-frontpage-indxchart.img?sid=3377&amp;amp;a=9551042" onclick="com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.ApplyLinkStyle(2);com.dowjones.BOLHPMarketsBox.drawChart(2);return false;"&gt;S&amp;amp;P 500*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;1288.14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="p10" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 102); padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;" align="right" height="15"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;-27.34&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(NEW YORK) "Raarrr, I have a headache! What a bad day at the market, this is the worst day ever."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2007/02/10/dlphot3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/graphics/2007/02/10/dlphot3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8367887093464793782-1098481282501684496?l=sternbears.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/feeds/1098481282501684496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8367887093464793782&amp;postID=1098481282501684496' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1098481282501684496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8367887093464793782/posts/default/1098481282501684496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sternbears.blogspot.com/2008/03/rarrr-i-have-headache.html' title='Rarrr I have headache!'/><author><name>"2.0 Weblogs"</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hQdLit0fhuM/R1SQhOgYEmI/AAAAAAAAABE/a82-hAK1buI/S220/iStock_000004189661XSmall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
