Posts Tagged ‘Oil’

Could Rising Interest Rates Derail The Economic Recovery?

June 10, 2009 - publisher

Now that an economic recovery appears likely, the markets have a new bogey-man they’re concerned about— Higher Interest Rates. In the government’s attempt to finance the economic recovery by selling billions of dollars of debt, interest rates have been steadily...

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Is Hyperinflation on the Horizon?

May 27, 2009 - publisher

So what exactly is Hyperinflation? Well… in the simplest of terms, it is extremely high or “out of control” inflation in which prices rise rapidly while a currency loses its value. Other definitions used by the media include “a cumulative...

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Happy New Year! – Market Off to a Good Start in 2009

January 4, 2009 - publisher

We hope that all of you had a wonderful and blessed holiday season! We slowed things down a little the last few weeks of the year here at OTCPicks.com, but now the batteries are recharged and we are back in the saddle again...

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The Holiday Rally turns into a Post-Holiday Hangover

December 1, 2008 - publisher

Courtesy of OTCPicks.com The stock market today suffered one of its worst days since the financial meltdown began, slicing 680 points off the Dow Jones industrial average as Wall Street snapped out of its daydream of a rally and once again...

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Fed Cuts Rates .5% to 1%, Oil Goes Up, Dollar Goes Down

October 29, 2008 - publisher

Feds Cut Interest Rate Half a Point On Wednesday Oct 29, the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by half a percentage point as it seeks to revive an economy rocked by the worst financial crisis in the better part...

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Dollar Falling and Oil, Gold and other Commodities Rising – AGAIN!!

September 22, 2008 - publisher

Written by OTCPicks.com Oil prices were up more than $25 a barrel today as investors became unsettled about the government’s $700B bailout plans. This was the biggest one day price surge ever for oil. The Fed is going to have to auction...

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