by Pops » Mon 18 Jun 2012, 09:02:59

Demand is down and supply is up so commercial stocks are up. I need to chart the amount of oil in commercial stocks, I'd bet it correlated pretty close to price.
My guess that the economy will be LESS able to cope with higher prices is still up in the air, Brent at US$120/bbl looks like the ceiling for sure and maybe even $100, the next top will shed light. Hard for me to tease out how much is oil price affecting the world economy, the price was heading up the first qtr when some kind of recovery seemed to be taking hold.
The price has now broken through my last guess for the price floor, the steep light red line, so how close it comes to darker red "bottom" will be interesting.
But it went out of the "wedge" to the downside after it went out to the up... so? Supplies are up
and demand down – kind of what we might expect from here?

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