MARKET APPROVAL - STOCKS RALLY WHEN PREZ RATINGS DIVE

...falling approval ratings can hamstring an ambitious chief executive bent on expanding the role of government -- a scenario that Wall Street often applauds and which appears to be happening right now.

From a new Angus Reid poll [PDF]:

Vestas protesters glue themselves together outside Ed Miliband's offices | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Miliband is currently in Brazil. "The DECC asked us why we were doing it when he wasn't in the country," Sophie Lewis, a spokeswoman, said. "Our response was that he should be in the country."