From 24/7 Wall Street:
Oil was already against the ropes and off of current highs because of the CFTC going after limits on speculators and limits on non-end-user trading activities on the energy commodity markets.
But this morning’s weekly oil inventory data from the Department of Energy is showing that either the weak economy and higher unemployment or the higher energy prices has created nothing short of a near-term demand cap. This DOE data has both the United States Oil (NYSE: USO) ETF and the iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index ETN (NYSE: OIL) in retreat...
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