...already $1.5067... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
``This record is purely a play on the weakness of the dollar, as investors use both crude and gold as a hedge against inflation,'' said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix Gmbh in Zug, Switzerland. ``If the dollar keeps getting weaker, and we don't have inventory builds today, it could drive prices towards $105.'' Crude oil for April delivery rose as much as $1.20, or 1.2 percent, to $102.08 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
``This record is purely a play on the weakness of the dollar, as investors use both crude and gold as a hedge against inflation,'' said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix Gmbh in Zug, Switzerland. ``If the dollar keeps getting weaker, and we don't have inventory builds today, it could drive prices towards $105.''
Crude oil for April delivery rose as much as $1.20, or 1.2 percent, to $102.08 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
there was a tiem when a dolalr was wordth 100 pesetas.. which would be roughly 1.65$ fo a euro.. and I think that is the palce where the dolalr is going to stay during tis long long US half-recession (which I have been advocatign for years to rebalance the world economy and oil consumption).
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