Energy: Big Banks' Oil Problems
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this energy-centric episode of Investor Focus, Taylor Muckerman and Tyler Crowe discuss the problems with Oil and how confused Big Banks really are.
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| 0:00.0 | Step right up, Fool's, if you can place the correct guess on the price of oil, you'll win a teddy bear. |
| 0:05.0 | This is industry focus. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey Fool's Taylor and Tyler here talking about oil and gas on Thursday. |
| 0:18.0 | I mean I would really like to win one of those honey bears. I don't know you got |
| 0:20.6 | them stored in the back there I'm going to say 150 why not |
| 0:24.3 | you know there every other price prediction nowadays seems to go all over the place so |
| 0:28.9 | why don't I just do something completely ridiculous out of everybody |
| 0:31.4 | back to 2008 yeah everybody's to be scared again, everybody's wondering, peak oil, stuff like that. |
| 0:36.0 | I'll throw just a stupid number out there like that because everybody else is now too. |
| 0:40.0 | My portfolio would certainly like 150, That's more than double some of the |
| 0:43.9 | projections you've seen out there. Way more than that and here's a funny thing you know |
| 0:47.5 | so many of these almost seem like knee-jerk reactions you know about a month ago |
| 0:52.3 | so many banks were putting out their |
| 0:54.0 | 2015 price outlooks for crude and basically within two weeks they've slashed them |
| 0:58.2 | almost in half. The biggest one, Goldman Sachs. They just recently changed their |
| 1:03.5 | their six-month outlook, which was a few months ago, or last month, excuse me, |
| 1:08.0 | $75, they've slashed it all the way down at $39. |
| 1:11.0 | Good for that. |
| 1:12.0 | Associated General, they've gone from 65 to 50. |
| 1:15.4 | Citigroup is really ambitious. |
| 1:17.2 | They're saying $63 for the entire year. |
| 1:19.7 | So it just seems like all the stuff that these guys are saying when they make these price targets |
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