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The infamous Microsoft help paperclip makes a timely appearance, providing options for all of your year-end tax planning needs.

h/t @ebitdad

By EconMatters

A strong API Report reporting over a 4 million barrel drawdown in Oil inventories, and a report out of Kuwait saying that an output freeze deal by major oil producers would proceed without Iran will be bullish for the oil market. We expect the short covering to begin tonight, tomorrow and for the next 8 days before the Doha Meeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcBqMlIy-s

That San Francisco, ground zero of the second tech - this time private (and currently bursting) - bubble, has a housing market that is "just a little frothy" is no surprise to anyone, but even we had to chuckle when we saw this billboard making the twitter rounds.

As Marketwatch notes, real estate is so frothy in the San Francisco Bay Area that a new development in the city’s Lake Merced neighborhood felt the need to advertise its townhomes on a billboard as million-dollar deals - get in now while the price is right!

WTI's 'mysterious' spike into the NYMEX close extended after hours (almost as if someone knew something). Inventories drewdown 4.6mm barrels according to API (drastically less than the expected 2.85mm build). This is the biggest weekly draw since Jan 1. Cushing was expected to see a build of 100k (after 2 weeks of draws) but saw a considerably larger one at +620k. Distillates inventories built as Gasoline drewdown very modestly.

API

Better than expected PMIs prompted a rip and dip early on as good news ended up as bad news today... as opposed to bad news being bad news yesterday (and good news being good news on Friday)... and just like that all the jobs gains are gone...

And despite some ramp efforts, this...