All by design. OPEC is trying to bankrupt the smaller players. Sure it’ll hurt them too in the short term, but they will be the last one standing.
Brent Crude is down to 70. T Boone Pickens said it would never go below $100.
Long term buying opportunity. Those big suppliers aren’t going anywhere, but in the short term they might reach affordable.
Deflation - what if its $50 a barrel? Gas prices at the pump are already $2.25. We may see them go down to $1.75 soon.
Why would the price of oil going down be a bad thing?
Also some related industries are geting slammed too. American Railcar Industries, (ARII) a manufacturer of tanker rail cars, is down 13%.
Lookie here! We have an OPEC sell off and an OPEC Tax Cut. ; ) Ain't that grand!
This is the best thing for the working poor and middle class folks. Yippee!
The price of a company’s stock has little impact on the bottom line of said company. If they need to raise money in the capital market, which they probably don’t need to do, it would impact a secondary issue of stock. the price of the underlying commodity will impact the company depending on how they are positioned. Oil companies are refineries. They process the oil for other uses. i’m not an economist but if it were my company and the commodity price crashed i would consider that a good thing.
I bought a bunch of FRG the nat gas ETF...it is at 52wk low today, down like 10%