financialsense.com - 1/29/2009
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Oil Rise, Oil Falls F rom the drilling of the first oil well in 1859, the oil industry has been locked into a perpetual boom-and-bust cycle. During the early days booms and busts were brought on by dramatic swings in the supply vs. demand equation. Generally, "get-rich-quickers" were in a race ...
fool.com - 1/30/2009
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fool.com —
Oil was both praised and pilloried last year,
as the price of a barrel of oil reached...
heights never before seen and then steadily declined to shockingly low levels. Last year, the now-infamous Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) prediction for oil to hit $200 ...
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The Long and Short of Oil ETFs
seekingalpha.com - 1/29/2009
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seekingalpha.com —
(The following is a Guest post on MarketFolly.com
. ' Tradefast ' is the nickname of an...
independent equity trader who has more than 20 years of market experience at a major financial institution and two hedge funds. He now trades for a private ...
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Contango: How It Affects Crude Oil ETFs and ETNs
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DrumBeat: January 29, 2009
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future —
... a $691 million loss in the fourth quarter.
Ford reports $5.9 billion fourth-quarter loss
DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it lost $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter as auto sales slumped, but it has no plans to seek federal aid unless economic conditions worsen.
The second-largest U.S. automaker said it burned through $5.5 billion in the quarter, less than the $7.7 billion it used in the third quarter.
Jim Puplava - Oil Rises, Oil Falls: The History of Oil Meets the Perfect Energy Trifecta ...
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Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays —
... - I thought high oil was the reason for record profits? Another reason to ignore the MSM
- Not sure if this is cool or not
- This is a really good article on oil
- It will be very bad when this happens
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