abcnews.go.com - 24 days ago
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High Heating Oil Bills? New Oil Trading Rules Could Help Federal Agency Readies to Take on Oil Speculators; Industry Warns of Unintended Consequences By RICH BLAKE Nov. 2, 2009 As the crisp autumn air in New England gets chillier, Ken Williams braces for his busiest time of year. His Quincy, ...
gregor.us - 30 days ago
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gregor.us —
Over the past two weeks I’ve taken the
time to read over a new, 68 page Peak...
Oil report from Paul Sankey at Deutsche Bank, entitled, The Peak Oil Market . What’s notable about this report is its holistic, comprehensive treatment of the ...
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Professional Money Management and Peak Oil
prudentinvestor.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
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prudentinvestor.blogspot.com —
As Obamacare dominates the American lamestream media, the
fundamentallly most important news for oil and the dollar...
was to be found first in the Theran News on October 27. The Iranian Oil Bourse was finally inaugurated last Monday, after such a statement was already made in February 2008 , ...
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Dollar Danger: Iranian Oil Bourse Steps Up Activities
247wallst.com - 29 days ago
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247wallst.com —
We have just seen this week’s latest Department
of Energy weekly oil inventory data. The new report...
is on the heels of a sudden rise in oil prices followed by an almost just as sudden drop in oil prices this week. Fortunately for the consumer, ...
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DOE Oil Inventories Back Up (OIH, DIG, USO, OIL)
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High Heating Oil Bills? New Oil Trading Rules Could Help
Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto —
Man, are these government suits idiots. Michael Martin (in my film) is quoted saying:
“Speculators exist so industries such as airlines can hedge exposure to an oil price shock, and for there to be a hedging market there has to be speculators. When you tinker around with one end of the market it has a way of perverting the entire market.”
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... On Monday, ABC News ran an article on increasing energy costs and tried to tie it in with guesses of impending CFTC rules and position limits. They quoted a few sources: a family-owned heating oil company executive, the head of an airline, and a spokesman for the ATA. ...
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