the price of oil on international markets is not high enough for them. oil and energy leaders are gathering again today in vienna for the latest opec summit. the biggest and most powerful player saudi arabia started this week with the news it s extending its voluntary output cut of1 million barrels per day to august. russia is making a similar move. but these cuts are failing to boost energy prices. why? jonathan robinsonjoins me now to explain he is global power & energy research director at frost and sullivan. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil prices- cuts in production, oil prices have stayed relatively low in what we have seen historically in the past year, 1.5 years. there are a few specific reasons for that. chinese demand, industrial out would, increasing
Points today. Its seventh consecutive decline. S p sank. 6 . Strong dollar and Lower Oil Prices are once again wreaking havoc on the stock market. Just like it did earlier this year. Until we got that nice respite in july, a respite that sadly now seems over. So how the heck did we end up back in this ugly situation . What are we supposed to do about it . Why dont we start with the key culprit . Oil. Oil declined 20 from its recent highs which qualifies as a bear market. Whatever thats worth. Its remarkable how little investors seem to care as oil plunged from 50 down to 40. The whole market moved higher. Often led by none other than the oil themselves. This paradoxical action culminated in oil crashing down to 41 last friday. The same time many oils as well as the broader s p 500 moved higher. But as of this week, that decoupling, it no longer seems to be the case and as oil blew through today, most of the market rolled over including glaringly many industrials, technology and consume
Nothing can trump oil when it goes down. No amount of good news. So once again the markets sold off, the dow sinking 89 points, the s p losing 0. 38 . Were not going to get out of this Oil Conundrum easily. As ive told you many a time, you can deride it all you want, the linkage, absolutely. But you see, you cant dismiss the fact that oil is in control. And weve got a very firm pattern going here. Oil is a hardtime rally on the fundamentals because we have a dramatic glut thanks to aggressive pumping really by the saudis. The correlation with the stock market revolves around demand. The supposition is when oil is weak, its because of u. S. Demand weakening. Therefore our economy must be slowing. This linkage will not break until it breaks. See, we dont know when the market will come to its senses. The oversupply drives oil down to the 40 level. Right now its at 43. When we got to 40, you know what happens . Like clock work, the renewalors begin that the saudis are going to cut back or
Were not going to get out of this Oil Conundrum easily. As ive told you many a time, you can deride it all you want, the linkage, absolutely. But you see, you cant dismiss the fact that oil is in control. And weve got a very firm pattern going here. Oil is a hardtime rally on the fundamentals because we have a dramatic glut thanks to aggressive pumping really by the saudis. The correlation with the stock market revolves around demand. Weak, its because of u. S. Demand weakening. Therefore our economy must be slowing. This linkage will not break until it breaks. See, we dont know when the market will come to its senses. The oversupply drives oil down to the 40 level. Right now its at 43. When we got to 40, you know what happens . Like clock work, the rumors begin that the saudis are going and then what happens . Crude rallies. It rebounds to the 45 to 47 range. Taking the stock market with it. Because the buyers of stocks dont seem to care how oil surges. They just assume its because of
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