Costs of health care are rising, lets face it if you watch the markets you see health care companies like HUM and AET posting good profits for many years means someone is paying them more and more each year and that cost is now making it to us in a new way.
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The market surged today on the backs of an oil recovery and higher commodity prices.  The commodities bull is back and its going to drag any shorts in its wake.  Wait for a pullback to sink anymore funds, however I did add to my RIG position at 148 yesterday.

The stock market was positive by a nice margin for its second straight day, with investors delighted by a pullback in oil prices on the heels of better then expected economic data.

Wall Street has been concerned about consumers cutting back their spending, so they were pleased that the energy markets gave up their early gains today of better then $125 a barrel.

The three companies mentioned here were the benefactor of investors coming back to the market and looking for quality companies to put their money in. With these earnings and over all current price per share, these stocks will continue to see new money as it comes back to the market.

(RIG: 56.92 0.00 0.00%, cap: 18.167B)
(FCX: 30.81 0.00 0.00%, cap: 11.635B)
(GNK: 19.15 0.00 0.00%, cap: 603.6M)

The market sputtered to a higher close today after being up as high as 150 points on the dow earlier.  We are very close to breaking out, however expect another day or two of potential flatness in commodities before oil pushes higher and the dollar weakens again.  On a side note, I must appologize for the website being down.  Apparently someone is trying to crash the server that it is hosted on.