Pop of the classIt's always nice to be sent gifts from grateful contacts, assuming of course that they are unsolicited, unexpected and in no way connected to any promises of beneficial future coverage. Actually, I must admit that they just made me put that last bit in: I'm more than susceptible to all forms of bribery, especially financial, alcoholic or of the, er, 'honey trap' variety. Not quite falling into any of those categories was the enormous box that arrived at FOW towers this week bearing the mark of CBoT. On opening the box, it turned out to contain several hundred small bags of popcorn, apparently in reference to the recent success of commodity products (corn, of course, being dear to the heart of the Board of Trade's Charlie Carey). This means that the office is now awash with...