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发表于 2009-10-22 10:28 PM
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本帖最后由 colderdown 于 2009-10-22 23:34 编辑
Lack of basic understanding of Great Depression. WWII saved US economy, not US govt. How about red hot oil, read this and guess which firm made this statement.
"Oil
• Stronger economic growth has pushed the oil market to the upper-end of a $60 to
$80 price band, but breaking above that level seems unsustainable – for now.
Consumer spending and the world economy are still too fragile to sustain prices
above $80/bbl and as we saw with the shift in prices earlier this year from $50 to
$75, a sharp rise in prices would kill the emerging recovery.
• The first stage of managing a price range would be for OPEC to take supply off the
market at the bottom end of the range and to raise output at the upper end of the
range. But once established, the market can take care of the process in a contango
environment – at the upper side of the range at least.
• The market has also become more forward looking. As long as liquidity is there
and there are long-term players in the market, they will look at the likely strong
returns from buying and holding crude at lower prices. While the spot market has
to clear, as we saw earlier this year, expectations of a rebalancing market and higher
forward prices can create demand for inventories (up to the stockholding limits of
the market) that will stabilize the price.
• Our view that a range is not only desirable, but inevitable in the short term is also
based on the view that if oil prices rise too high or too quickly, they can impact
consumer spending. We saw this when oil prices rose from $50 to $75 this year
and higher gasoline prices dented consumer spending." |
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