What Kind Of Day Has It Been

• Venezuela has offered--and Libya has accepted--to interpose itself in the Libyan crisis. France has already rejected the offer. Fighting in East Libya continues and charges of mass kidnapping by the Qaddafi regime are emerging.


• The Wisconsin Senate has voted to order the missing Democrats to return to the state or face arrest.


• Egyptian PM and vestige of the Mubarak regime, Ahmed Shafiq, resigned.


• Crude is down slightly on the NYMEX and The Economist considers an oil shock.