Quickhits (and I thought Halloween was supposed to be scary....)

(AP) Oil hits $96, another record. (Is it any wonder that gas stations are starting to collect biometric info?)

(AP) "A total of 446,726 homes nationwide were targeted by some sort of foreclosure activity from July to September, up 100.1 percent from...the year-ago period....

There was one foreclosure filing for every 196 households in the nation during the most recent quarter."

(AP) Bhutto leaves Pakistan to "visit family in Dubai." (She's supposedly due back Nov. 8.)

(AP) Turkish FM Babacan says any cross border operation "would not be an invasion."