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Oil under $65 as demand declines ($64.46/bbl)
Reuters ^ | September 16, 2005 | Felicia Loo

Posted on 09/16/2005 2:48:32 AM PDT by RWR8189

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9/16/2005 Session Contract Detail for Oct 5
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1 posted on 09/16/2005 2:48:33 AM PDT by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189

Who knows WTF is going on! I hear one mouthpiece for a big name brand financial house say oil will be $35 a year from now and another mouthpiece for another equaly big name brand finincial house say it will be $100 in a year.


2 posted on 09/16/2005 3:21:07 AM PDT by heckler (wiskey for my men, beer for my horses, rifles for sister sarah)
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To: RWR8189

I don't understand. The price went up and then demand went down? What the hell kind of system is that?

The price corrected itself before we even got to create a government program! We can't have that!


3 posted on 09/16/2005 3:22:53 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 51-58)
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To: heckler
The mouthpieces can say anything they want. The consumers in the marketplace have the final say-so.

Leni

4 posted on 09/16/2005 3:23:23 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: RWR8189

Gold at $458, 17 yr high...


5 posted on 09/16/2005 3:25:19 AM PDT by djf (Government wants the same things I do - MY guns, MY property, MY freedoms!)
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To: RWR8189

I saw $2.79 gas yesterday. It's slowly coming down in PA, but how far?


6 posted on 09/16/2005 3:25:29 AM PDT by airborne
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"...but leading members say they see little hope of more crude supplies easing prices inflated by a feared shortage of refined fuels. "

Herein lies the real problem - we have maxed out our refining capacity. Thanks due to the tree-hugger crowd, no ne refineries have been built in the past 30 years.


7 posted on 09/16/2005 3:34:53 AM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: djf

Gold is going to increase as financial institutions shift from investing in oil to gold.

As more financial firms and non-oil industry investors get out of the oil market, prices will stabilize at the levels that could be considered "natural".


8 posted on 09/16/2005 3:35:17 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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Gold is going to increase as financial institutions shift from investing in oil to gold.

Which will further lower the price of oil. Of course gold prices tend to predict inflation, so high gold could be a sign of increasing inflation.

9 posted on 09/16/2005 4:17:41 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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"Gold at $458, 17 yr high.."

That will be great news to those that bought it at $800 an ounce in 1980. Heck, if they live long enough for it to get to $500 they'll only lose $300 an ounce...except for those that bought it at the peak of $870.

10 posted on 09/16/2005 4:27:38 AM PDT by Proud_texan (I didn't leave the republican party, it left me.)
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To: airborne
$2.469 here in NE OK.

And while we're on the subject, why do gasoline retails still get to sell gasoline at X-point-nine cents per gallon? I mean, it was marginally understandable when gasoline sold for 20 or 30 or even 40 cents per gallon, but now that it's more than $2 per gallon, it's just silly.

If it takes a federal law to change this silly practice, then I'm for it.

DROP THE 9/10 OF A CENT!

11 posted on 09/16/2005 4:34:20 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: heckler
"Who knows WTF is going on!"

Fact is no one knows.

While I include myself in that category my experience tells me that the true market price of oil should be in the range of $42 as we've seen a bubble develop over the last year.

The market is not always rational, especially the oil market for some reason and I'm betting it's going down or at least I have sold my long positions. I missed the top by a point or two, but I rarely can pick the absolute top or bottom.

I am reminded of the chatter when oil hit $10 a barrel. The market was acting like it was going to $0 a barrel. The mania in that direction would have been, had it not been so tragic for small drillers, funny.

And there's a bit of hope in my $42 dollar prediction. At that price is makes sense to restart production on a lot of existing marginal wells (anything lower and the expense of extraction makes it a money loser) as well as making new drilling financially attractive.

12 posted on 09/16/2005 4:34:30 AM PDT by Proud_texan (I didn't leave the republican party, it left me.)
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To: airborne

Gas was down to $ 2.65 yesterday outside of Des Moines, Iowa.


13 posted on 09/16/2005 4:39:35 AM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: savedbygrace
DROP THE 9/10 OF A CENT!

I agree completely!

14 posted on 09/16/2005 4:42:46 AM PDT by airborne
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To: redgolum

I think gold follows inflation rather than acts as a leading indicator, so I don't think rising gold prices now will indicate that there is inflation.

Oil prices will depress as non-oil industry buyers (speculators) seek a less volatile market in which to preserve their money. Gold is a solid investment, as well as a lot of the mutual funds out there.

I'm hopeful that some of the money will go into the stock market and hopefully into new ventures, or the expansion of companies with potential.


15 posted on 09/16/2005 4:47:01 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: RWR8189

An investigation into futures trading should commence. I would not be surprised to find George Soros and his friends have been playing the markets.


16 posted on 09/16/2005 4:48:26 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: heckler

It is called trying to "influence" the market for financial gain.


17 posted on 09/16/2005 4:48:31 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: airborne

You do know they will not drop the 9/10 but rather add 1/10.


18 posted on 09/16/2005 4:53:16 AM PDT by zeebee
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To: savedbygrace

I never could figure out the .9 either. I'd aso like to see it go.


19 posted on 09/16/2005 5:28:22 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: zeebee

LOL. Anything to make money. Even my 13 yr. old liked that.


20 posted on 09/16/2005 5:31:25 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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