Morning News

• Futures are down once again this morning pointing to a lower open.

• Weekly Jobless Claims today at 8:30 am.

• First Albany lifts the price target of Apple Computer (AAPL) to $60.00 a share up from $53.00 per share.

• Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) planning to release anti-virus and anti-spam security software in the first half of 2006.

• Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) same store sales up 10% over the past 5 weeks.

• Crude Oil dipping down to two month lows. Demand for gasoline could be declining due to these high prices the consumer is paying.

• Currently Crude Oil is $62.00 per barrel.

• Wholesale Gasoline currently $1.87 per gallon.

• Natural gas pulling back just a bit currently $14.13 per unit.

• Gold currently $469.20 per ounce.

Budd Foxx