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Credit Squeeze Drops Oil Prices

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Wall Street

January 20, 2010
The Facts
After a run up from the low 70’s to around $84 per barrel over the past month, oil is now hovering around $77. The 18 percent rise was in the face of continued decrease’s in usage and high inventories. While the hyper’s of the stock market have been saying it’s due to [...]

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Tags: Oil Prices·Oil Speculators

The Wooing Of Crude Oil Prices

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Oil Industry

Oil companies have (temporarily) tasted the best that life has to offer, so they, like Wall Street, are not about to give any of it up, no matter if it does require killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

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Tags: Oil Company Profits·Oil Price Manipulation·Oil Speculators

Edward Lazear – ‘Speculators Didn’t Cause High Oil Prices’ – Video

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Wall Street

Lazear’s credibility has to be called into question when he starts defending the commodities traders.

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Tags: Edward Paul Lazear·Mark Haines·Oil Prices·Oil Speculators·Wall Street

Oil Prices, The Economy And Health Care Reform

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Oil Industry

August 13, 2009
Why three completely different topics in this post? Because they’re all related to CNBC’s biased news reporting. Although CNBC’s biases always come out with glaring undeniability, I thought I’d include these three since they were the main topics this morning.

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Tags: Art Cashin·CNBC·Economy·Erin Burnett·Health Care Industry·Health Care Reform·James Cordier·Joe Kernen·Larry Cudlow·Michelle Caruso-Cabrera·Oil Industry·Oil Prices·Oil Speculators·Tommy Thompson

Do You Know Who Andrew J. Hall Is?

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Wall Street

Ahhhh, the pleasure’s enjoyed from free taxpayer money! A $100 million will buy a lot.

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Tags: Andrew J. Hall·Citigroup·Energy Traders·Oil Speculators·Pay Packages & Bonuses·Phibro·Wall Street

Oil Company Profits versus Bernie Madoff Profits

July 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Wall Street

Comparing the oil industry’s’ earnings drop to the same period last year is like saying Bernie Madoff’s profits fell to zero percent this quarter compared to last year.

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Tags: ConocoPhillips·Exxon·Oil Company Profits·Oil Industry·Oil Prices·Oil Speculators·Royal Dutch Shell

There’s Talk About Oil Speculators Again; Oil Prices Drop

July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Wall Street

July 28, 2009
Today Bob Pisani of CNBC called them the conspiracy theorist (see first video below). “Them” is those who know oil traders drive the price of oil, not supply & demand — and say so. Sharon Epperson said energy traders on the floor were nervous. At 6:15 this morning oil was down just 20 [...]

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Tags: Bart Chilton·Bob Pisani·CFTC·CNBC·Conspiracy Theorist·Craig Donohue·Oil Price Manipulation·Oil Prices·Oil Speculators·Sharon Epperson·Wall Street

Oil Speculators Exposed — Again

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Wall Street

Eichberger did point out that as soon as Congress and the CFTC started looking at speculators and talking about reining them in, the prices started dropping. That coincided with the price of oil dropping over $10 per barrel over the past ten days or so. In other words, when the bank robbers hear of renewed efforts to stop them, they curtail their bank robbing — until no one is looking.

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