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Oil Prices

…OPEC meeting in which production quotas may be changed. Is it too early to start wondering whether the run-up in prices this fall was simply a small speculative bubble? Kash…

Another Day, Another Record…

…in the oil markets. Today’s record price is above $54. Is this a speculative bubble? It looks kinda like one, just because of the increasing rapidity of the price increases…

…commodities have moderated – a process which was helped along by the slowdown in China and of course by a reduction in speculative long positions (our friend, the carry trade)….

…would be out of bounds? What do you consider out of bounds? MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I mean, that’s kind of a speculative question, Terry. I think that it’s — like…

…traded in that subcompact. But to buy more stock hoping to make a speculative profit assumes oil prices will not go down, which Tom Nugent at NRO says otherwise. But…

…of this unforunate puzzle comes in today’s NYT: George J. Tenet and his deputies at the Central Intelligence Agency were presented in August 2001 with a briefing paper labeled “Islamic…

…mission control team think that this sustained buying spree is harmful and are trying to dampen the perceived speculative excesses by ways of hawkish talk. A quick glance at the…

…However, foreigners were still gobbling up US stocks and bonds in November. This suggests that the fall in the dollar may be due more to speculative activity in short-term investments…

…50,000. Analysts cautioned that such a figure was speculative, but it does indicate a deep-rooted revolt on a far greater scale than the Pentagon had led the administration to believe….

…ago today, C.B.O. did not predict that in the late 1990’s we would have a surplus. Dufffy’s not entirely wrong here, ten year predictions are highly speculative. One presidential candidate…