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Trading Strategy: Oil Stocks vs Oil
marketsci.wordpress.com - 12/30/2008
Trading Strategy: Oil Stocks vs Oil
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This strategy was inspired by the recent Bespoke post Oil Stocks Outperforming Oil in which Bespoke showed the historical ratio between the price of oil stocks and the price of oil itself. I’ve reproduced their graph below. Rising values indicate that oil stock prices are strong relative to ...

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four-pillars.ca - 12/31/2008
Four Pillars Investing
— four-pillars.ca — Happy New Year to all our readers - last year was a tough one in the markets but I can’t complain. My financial situation is better now than it was last year thanks to some aggressive mortgage paydown. In other areas of my life - our son is a year ... (more) Four Pillars Investing

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guardian.co.uk - 12/28/2008
Demand for oil will fall by largest margin in 25 years in 2009 | Business | The ...
— guardian.co.uk — Gloibal demand for oil in 2009 will fall by the largest amount for 25 years, according to the chief energy economist of Deutsche Bank. Adam Sieminski said oil prices could hit a low of $30 a barrel next year, a fall of a quarter from today's price, ... (more) Demand for oil will fall by largest margin in 25 ...

Comments vote down The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and ... found this 12/28/2008found this
The oil shock and recession of 2008: Part 1
econbrowser.com - 1/2/2009
The oil shock and recession of 2008: Part 1
— econbrowser.com — This is the first in what I'm planning will be a series of posts discussing the contribution that the energy price spike of 2008 made to our present economic difficulties. In this first installment, I revisit a very interesting research paper on the ... (more) The oil shock and recession of 2008: Part 1

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Tuesday links: cash on the sidelines
Abnormal Returns — ... High yield bond spreads have come in…a little bit.  (Bespoke) 20 surprises for 2009.  (TheStreet.com) Models work, until they don’t.  (Crossing Wall Street) How did ‘lazy portfolios‘ do in 2008?  (Marketwatch.com) Trading the oil/oil stock ratio.  (MarketSci Blog) Top ten “dear investor” letters. ...

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