Harvard officials have stated that "An unconfirmed bomb threat has been received. The Science Ctr, Sever, Emerson, and Thayer Halls are being evacuated." The four buildings are being searched. We expect this process will likely take several hours.

The allure of ill-gotten oil money remains strong. The lull in drilling has given oil companies more time to scrutinize their operations -- and their losses. As Bloomberg reports, during booms "they are moving at such a rapid pace there’s not a lot of auditing and inventorying going on," said Gary Painter, sheriff in Midland County, Texas, in the oil-rich Permian Basin; but "whenever it slows down, they start looking for stuff and find out it never got delivered or it got delivered and it’s gone." From raw crude sucked from wells to expensive machinery that disappears out the back door, drillers from Texas to Colorado are struggling to stop theft that has only worsened amid tens of thousands of lost roughneck jobs.

“If they end up doing nothing to address this budget issue ... Houston could be facing the same problem Chicago is now."

Russia’s central bank recently warned about the growing financial risks to the Russian economy from Saudi Arabia encroaching upon its traditional export market for crude oil. Russia sends 70 percent of its oil to Europe, but Saudi Arabia has been making inroads in the European market amid the oil price downturn. The result is a heavier discount for Russia’s crude oil, the so-called Urals blend. Russian officials have accused Saudi Arabia of “dumping” its oil in Europe, a move that Rosneft chief Igor Sechin said would “backfire.”

It would appear The ECB has undertaken the same baffle'em with bullshit meme the rest of the world's central planners have embraced. Speaking this morning (this time not to a private hedge fund group), The ECB's Benoit Coeure stated unequivocally that "The ECB doesn't see overvalued asset prices." Well that's nice, apart from the -38bps yield on German 2Y notes. But then... to lull investors from their stupor, Coeure unleashed, "The ECB does see "little bubbles" in some markets." Which ones we can only wonder as they prepare to buy Muni bonds...

As the third day after the Paris attacks dawns, and hours after France launched an unprecedented blitz airstrike on the Islamic State "capital" of Raqqa (located in the sovereign state of Syria), here are the latest developments following the worst European terrorist attack in the past decade.

Stocks are up, because of fun-durr-mentals again...