After earning a PH.D. in Sociology Danny Bazil Riley started to work as the general manager at a commercial real estate firm at an annual base salary of #36;70,000. Soon after, a financial planner stopped by his desk to drop off brochures about insurance benefits available through his employer ### END Short-sellers, Wall Street's dwindling band of ultra-cynics, are seeing green again ### END Soaring crude prices ### outlook for earnings are expected to hang over the stock market next ### END OPEC can do nothing to douse scorching oil prices ### markets are already oversupplied by 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude ### END Non-OPEC oil exporters should consider increasing output to cool record crude prices ### END The auction for Google Inc.'s highly anticipated initial public offering got off to a rocky start on Friday ### END The dollar tumbled broadly on Friday ### END