Peter Beutel
Peter Beutel
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It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. With what's been going on the past few days, it's hard to see a solid reason why prices should be higher today. It's disturbing.
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We are looking at prices dramatically higher than a year ago in some cases.
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The factor that's moving prices higher is the overarching petro-political fears. This market has a lot on its plate this week.
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We don't know how much of the refinery is down or for how long. But not to negate the human tragedy, it happened at the worst time of the year seasonally. And it happens at a time the market is nervous and looking for reasons to go higher anyway.
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Still, the middle of October is the time for us to look at a top. A number of fundamentals that used to move higher are getting pretty stale. The drop in production from the U.S. Gulf, the Nigerian strike, a lot of these factors aren't getting any worse.
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With oil stocks so low, there's a huge amount of concern.
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With another storm threatening the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning,
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This week's DOE report showed a decent withdrawal in distillate stocks, with demand finally showing some teeth.
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We could be looking at gasoline lines and $4 gas, maybe even $5 gas, if this thing does the worst it could do,
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Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.
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At this point it looks like $70 is squarely in the market's sights, and people are talking about it as a done deal, ... The likelihood is that if Katrina goes into the Gulf and we don't know exactly where it will make landfall, anyone short in this market Friday afternoon will panic.
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The good news is, we have a week to get ready. The bad news is that the market has all week to react.
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We also broke an important barrier. Once oil broke $62.50, a lot of mutual funds and speculators started buying.
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If we come back on Monday and there is no new hurricane and Wilma has not done any damage to oil and gas production, then I think traders will be selling almost in relief,