Not many surprises this week: European debt worries were downright muted compared to previous weeks on the heels of the latest round of ECB intervention. Gas prices and US stocks (aka AAPL) continued to climb while US house prices continued to search for the bottom. Here’s what we’re reading headed into the weekend:

• Investors would flee Ucits under transaction tax, says EFAMA (via CityWire)
• Insight: Wall Street, Fed face off over physical commodities (via Yahoo)
• There’s still a fight going on to change the futures industry post MF Global (via Reuters)
• Napkin cartoons make complex economic topics seem much easier: (via Scribd)
• All you need to know about Credit Default Swaps (via Ritholtz)
• Goldman getting into Managed Futures space (via Barrons)

Just for Fun:

• Speech Jamming Gun (via Popular Science)