Opening Belz, July 3

Preliminary June employment report beats expectations – Bill McBride North American oil boom stabilizes prices, makes U.S. policy easier – WSJ Key Obamacare provision delayed until after 2014 elections – AP How a pasta chain punked all the food snobs on Wall Street – Daily Beast Regulators have missed 63% of Dodd-Frank rulemaking deadlines – Davis Polk Logjam! On the Mississippi River in St. Paul – StarTribune Mercedes-Benz sales up 8.3 percent in June – Reuters Strib publisher Klingensmith is lead contender for top Time Inc. job – WSJ Man catches perhaps 200-year-old fish off coast of Alaska – Yahoo