"Total U.S. carloads of coal by rail during the first quarter of 2012 fell to 1.55 million carloads, the lowest level for any quarter since the beginning of 1994, as demand for coal by the U.S. electricity sector decreased."

Apple (AAPL) is now down 8.38% over the last five trading days, in which it has declined each day.  Over the last ten years, Apple has had 24 prior 5-day losing streaks, the last occurring on September 30th of last year.   As shown below, the stock has gone up on day six half of the time, but it has averaged a gain of 0.63% on the day.  Over the next week, the stock has been up 62.5% of the time for an average gain of 1.23%.  Following the 5-day losing streak back in September, however, the stock went on to decline 1.76% on day six and 3.02% over the next week.

Three main issues surrounded this year’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia this past weekend. For the most part, those issues created a division between the Americans and Canadians poised against most of Latin America with the exception of the prostitution scandal that will likely be more of an issue between Obama and the Republicans.