Oil rally may be economy’s undoing

NEW YORK – Preoccupied the last few months with shrinking credit and a slumping economy, Wall Street has all but ignored the relentless rise in oil prices that has taken a barrel of crude to a once-unthinkable $106.

But the market may not be able to look the other way much longer


“Investors are just getting used to higher oil prices in what has really been a stealth rally,” said Peter Dunay, chief investment strategist with Meridian Equity Partners.

He said lofty oil prices “should be getting lots of attention” by Wall Street. But, investors have instead been distracted by a nearly endless stream of bad news about the economy