The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Earnings From GOOG, CAT or MRK

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• Going-gaga-for-Google after GOOG posted better-than-expected earnings...
• Disappointing results from Caterpillar (CAT) that have the stock poised to gap lower...
• Better-than-expected earnings from Merck (MRK)...
• OPEC's decision to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day...
• Optimism [subscription required] on Sunoco (SUN) as it is argued that "tight capacity and cold weather may just help Sunoco shares pull ahead..."
• Chatter that the Fed may need to resume rate hikes...
• Some semi-cautious comments about the Dow breaching 12,000...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - Cloaking device works, sort of, scientists say...yes that is right, scientist have created what is described as the "first step toward making a what they hope will be an invisibility cloak"...take that Google!