Oil and gold

    Posted by ditch on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 03:33 pm

    I find it surprising that oil is not moving with gold? anyone care to explain?

    Oil has been associated with

    Posted by zayed on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Oil has been associated with a global market
    Gold has been associated with fear of the current crises

    Oil has more than doubled

    Posted by yankee19 on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Oil has more than doubled off its' lows... Gold still has plenty of room to run

    the triangle measures up to

    Posted by matt on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 10:05 pm

    the triangle measures up to about 1085 - 1100 for an extended flat

    Maybe it has something to

    Posted by shamutooth on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 04:31 pm

    Maybe it has something to do with oil ETN's being shut down,so they have to sell futures contracts to liquidate. Maybe some of that inflation hedge is moving to gold.

    Safe Haven Buying

    Posted by saturn6 on 2nd of Sep 2009 at 03:44 pm

    Oil may be too correlated to the economy and if that turns bad (as we suspect) oil may well drop.

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