oil-prices
Wall Street’s Wild Ride
Stocks started the month of September with a wild, manic ride.
The Dow rocketing over 200 higher in early trading, fueled by
news that Hurricane Gustav did very little damage to the many
oil and gas platforms that dot the Gulf of Mexico. (It also spared
New Orleans, veering to the west instead of adding to the
devastation that [...]
Market Meets Reality
The stock market met reality yesterday – it did not go well. Record high oil prices and a warning about inflation form the Federal Reserve smacked sobriety into U.S. investors. Oil traded at $135 a barrel and the minutes from the Fed’s late April policy meeting implied that further interest rate cuts are unlikely [...]
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