Peter Gignoux
Peter Gignoux
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What we're seeing this morning is in response to OPEC's comments and also some old-fashioned year-end book squaring. Oil prices rose sharply and then fell. The market is doing some to-and-fro action, where traders saw the fluctuations and thought about pulling back instead of buying at the higher prices.
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The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
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Altogether we're on target. The market's behaving very well right now.
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Remember that oil disruption is a genuine bullish indicator for the commodity,
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By having a diplomatic meeting, they're ratcheting OPEC up one notch from a producers' cartel to a quasi-diplomatic organization. It's a rare occurrence,
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Yesterday's rally was based on a number of factors. There was some financial geometry in there as well. It was an options expiry day on the New York Mercantile with a rising market. That gave it a little more oomph than it needed. Now that oil's flowing, prices are coming back in line.