MONDAY

• The National Weather Service and the stock market go together like frigid weather forecasts and rising oil prices. That’s cold. (Reuters)
• Big news: “It’s hard to anticipate the direction of financial markets.” (thanks for the heads-up, Wall Street Journal)

TUESDAY

• Middle-aged white guys at Goldman Sachs value Facebook at $50 billion, scramble to get a piece of it before the company’s stock becomes publicly available. (Wall Street Journal)
• 6,000 new jobs at dollar stores are still new jobs, aren’t they? (CNN)

WEDNESDAY

• Microsoft-Google deathmatch: Who gets to provide email services to the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife? (Wall Street Journal)

THURSDAY

• Reason 1,174 to be glad you’re a person and not a state: States lost an average of 30% of their revenue in 2009. (The Washington Post)

FRIDAY

• Aaaaaand Facebook is going public! Probably! (The Wall Street Journal)

Tags: employment, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, google, government contract, microsoft, Oil