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To: dennisw

I thought the Dow and Crude prices usually moved in opposite directions.


11 posted on 12/18/2008 10:26:08 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

“I thought the Dow and Crude prices usually moved in opposite directions.”

Generally, and lately, commodities traded as futures go up when the fed rate and dollar goes down. Same thing happened in the past few days, except, for oil.

The major moving force in commodities lately is gazillionaires parking, or de-parking there money. With oil this week something else is happening. I suspect the OPEC countries are producing way over what they are reporting, their faucets reaching their height now, spurred by the $150bbl of months ago.


80 posted on 12/18/2008 11:45:10 AM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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