US gun and car sales, Brent crude, Twitter and retailer John Lewis were just some of the eclectic themes attracting interest in business web world.
The latter, whose Christmas adverts seem to have become the most -talked about aspect of the business in recent years, posted record festive sales, as its "Man on the Moon" ad appears to have paid off.
Although bricks and mortar sales were nothing to write home about, the firm had total sales of £951million over the key Black Friday, Christmas and post-Christmas period, with notably a 21.4% increase in online sales as store sales dropped 1.2%.
Speaking of bumper sales, it emerged US auto sales hit a record high in 2015 as more and more punters were attracted to showrooms due to cheap credit, rising consumer confidence and cheap fuel.
Also stateside, gun sales are rising just as president O'Bama launches new restrictions to limit the availability of firearms.
Gunmaker Smith & Wesson saw shares rise to their highest value in over 15 years ahead of the president's emotional statement.
On a day when it emerged North Korea claims it has carried out its first test of a hydrogen nuclear bomb, the UK FTSE100 slumped 1.5% and was just 40 points from going under 6,000.
The biggest gainer was defence giant BAE Systems (LON:BAE), up 1.8% to 503p.
The price of Brent crude continued to slide - to a fresh 11 year low below US£35 - despite tensions between Saudi and Iran, which would under normal circumstances propel the commodity upward, but the record glut (oversupply) has put paid to all that.
In small cap news, African Potash climbed over 17% as it revealed it had sent the first 20,000 tonnes of fertiliser under a landmark trade - its first from the COMESA agreement, which will provide it with US$10.16mln of gross revenue.
Also up was Corero Network Security (LON:CNS), which added over 18% as it sees hundreds of further opportunities for new business on the back of two recent landmark cyber contracts struck with tier-one internet service providers (ISPs).
The Corero deals, with a combined value of over US$1mln, are to provide its SmartWall technology to a tier one ISP in Europe and last month, one with a US giant.
Finally the last word, or perhaps not, goes to social media giant Twitter, which may be losing its 140 character restriction, which has been its hallmark for some years.
In a message of all things, founder Jack Dorsey wrote that ther group wanted to expand its offering and noticed many users are already including screenshots of longer texts in their tweets.
Officially, US listed Twitter declined to comment.