The Market On Tuesday

Its looking like we may experience a slight rise in the market today. We'll take it with the DOW at 7,936 we are bottom dwelling.

Futures are up but buried within the Reuters articles we find:

BofA had some details of Merrill bonuses: report

Bank of America Corp and Merrill Lynch agreed on a plan to pay up to $5.8 billion in bonuses to employees of the combined firm as BofA moved to take over the ailing investment bank, the Wall Street Journal said.

It would be interesting to see the figures on how much in investments ordinary people lost with Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch always had the notoriety of being extremely partial to the high level investors while ordinary people had their portfolios in dust bins. This is very disturbing and gets at the key greed within these structures.

Reuters: Stock futures signal bounce; eyes on car sales

Companies due to report on Tuesday include D.R. Horton, Emerson Electric, Rockwell Collins, Walt Disney, Archer Daniels Midland, Electronic Arts, Northrop Grumman, Avon Products, Merck & Co., MetLife, Motorola, Schering-Plough, United Parcel Service and Yum! Brands.

U.S. auto sales for January are expected to have dropped to a 27-year low...