nytimes.com - 3/10/2009
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Oil options traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price of crude oil has been rising for the last three weeks.
marketoracle.co.uk - 3/4/2009
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marketoracle.co.uk —
Economy for 2009 Global crude oil production peaked
in 2008. This will mean that there will be...
no recovery from the recession. Global crude oil production had been rising briskly until 2004, then plateaued for four years. Because oil producers were ...
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Dow Jones Stock Market Forecast 2009 :: The Market ...
calculatedriskblog.com - 3/9/2009
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calculatedriskblog.com —
Last year I wrote a post about how
falling oil prices would provide some cushion for the...
U.S. economy: The Oil Cushion . Here is an update ... The following graph shows the monthly personal consumption expenditures (PCE) at a seasonally adjusted ...
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The Oil Cushion
theoildrum.com - 3/9/2009
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theoildrum.com —
A lot of us have an image in
the back of our mind of Hubbert's peak. Based...
on this peak, we assume that oil production will decline in much the same pattern as it rose. For example, in an analysis performed several years ago, Luis de Sousa shows this ...
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Where Is Oil Production Headed?: An Adverse Scenario
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Why Oil Prices and ETFs Could Be Heading Lower
ETF Trends —
... Have the inflated oil prices of last summer become a distant memory, or will prices creep up again this season and return to haunt consumers and lead related exchange traded funds (ETFs) on a new uptrend? Many assumed that during this global recession, one saving grace was that the price of oil per barrel had found a floor, around $40 per barrel, and that this would last until the recession rode itself out. Jad Mouawad for ...
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