The Market On Friday

  Good morning. It is 62 degrees and sunny here in the Upper Hudson Valley. It looks like we are in for a beautiful day in this area, not too hot and not too humid yet sunny. We are reading about another horrible plain crash this time over Mali. I believe this is the third major crash in the last week. It's a difficult thing to think about.

  At 8:45 a.m. ET DOW futures are slightly lower and the price of oil per barrel is down. The market is poised to open lower.

  What can we say, the morning reads like a blah period for investors. Poor results from Amazon, and how can that be considering I alone am always buying books and such from them, sanctions by the EU on Russia/Ukraine, another airliner down, continued M.E. misery...Fortunately the weekend is almost here and we can calmly put these things out of the mind and be content.

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Shares of Amazon fell nearly 10% in premarket trading after the company posted a larger than expected loss.

Time is running out for Argentina to avoid defaulting on its debt...