QUOTE(MakanTidurSaham @ Oct 9 2009, 02:51 PM)
I disagree, oil price inching up is actually signaling the economy is getting better and better due to higher demand for oil. Because you are looking at it in a speculation point of view, that's why you are interpreting it wrongly.
Who is purchasing the OIL right now? Tell me. I'm still blurred. Look at the production level world-wide and look at the inventory of oil. There's no demand for oil only over supply of oil.
* Head over to : www.eia.doe.gov and read it through to get some point I'm trying to highlight.
Dude, I know that the collapse was due to non-oil bubble, no disagreement there but the economy is down as a whole. It's effects are viral. So, its not speculation angle I'm talking about.
Putting that all aside, tell me what this gonna have to do with SAAG??. Can they get new contract? That is more important.
No contract - no profit, no dividend, price goes to longkang, plus speculative selling by Shark. OK?
Special Report just for you:
Typically, a decline in stocks would be bullish for crude markets, suggesting that demand is picking up. But it appears refiners are processing higher volumes of crude merely to stick the finished gasoline and other products in storage, rather than selling it to motorists, airlines and truckers. The EIA reported inventories of petroleum products climbed by 3.6 million barrels.
"The only thing the crude market has going for it, as far as a sustained upward move, is an appreciable weakening of the U.S. dollar," said Jim Rittenbusch, an industry analyst.
Mr. Rittenbusch said the world is afloat in crude oil - with higher than average stocks in the United States and a flotilla of tankers storing crude offshore.
Crude prices were bolstered earlier this year by traders who bought current production and put it in storage, while selling it for future delivery at much higher prices.
With the U.S. dollar under pressure this year, financial investors - including major brokerages and retail investors - have flocked to the commodity markets as a hedge against the dollar and against inflation.
"When the curve flattens out, these holders of floating cargoes have incentive to release those cargoes," Mr. Rittenbusch said.
"Some of these floating cargoes will be released into the market, which should equate to some large imports into the Gulf coast region ... and demand is still well below five-year averages."
He expects U.S. inventories to build again as sluggish demand is unable to absorb both current production and the surge in imports caused by the release of floating cargoes.