While everyone is focused on what Obama will do with green energy, it is pointed out that Canada is the largest, nearest, most reliable, and friendliest source of oil the U.S. has. Obama would be smart to enhance that relationship even further.

Based off the last news reports, without Steve Jobs, the multi-billion-dollar enterprise that is Apple (NYSE: AAPL) would simply cease to exist. Every new report of his health is followed in the market, and Apple’s stock price takes corresponding hikes and plunges.

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