Showing posts with label global markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global markets. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Market Report: Oil Prices Set to Decline Amid Global Econ Matters


As the dollar world turns. Oil prices are heading lower ahead of a big week in global economic matters. Not only will the G-20 meet in Pittsburgh to try to assess what went wrong with the global economy and try to fix it, but also the Fed meets to decide whether or not it's time to remove some of the props that have been lifting the global markets. And the question for oil traders is whether or not the dollar can find love and happiness in a world gone mad.

Once again the dollar is the key driver moving the crude market. Traders are covering the dollar on fear that perhaps the G-20 may do something to support the dollar or that the Fed may slow down its purchases of treasuries. Of course the dollar has been oversold and it's possible that we are getting to the point where the carry trade has gotten.....Read the entire article