The swine flu has become something of an oddity in the media and as we know, we cannot discount the media when making investment decisions. The World Health Organization is now saying that this may become a pandemic yet it’s getting less media attention in the financial world than it did on Monday when the news first broke.

In Monday’s news two odd words were the dominant words on every news channel include the financial networks: Swine Flu. What started as an unknown, mostly non-issue in Mexico quickly became a source of international concern as cases starting appearing all over the world including right here in the United States. What does that mean for your money?