Energy: Why Can’t Hedge Funds Make Up Their Minds About Oil Prices?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In a classic case of whiplash, hedge funds are now turning sour on crude after bullish bets hit an all-time high just a few weeks ago – the Energy crew weighs in.
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| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dies into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:17.0 | Today is Thursday, March 30th, 2017, so we're talking about energy, materials, and industrials. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm her host Sean O'Reilly and joining me today in studio is Motley Fool Premium |
| 0:27.2 | Analyst, Mr. Taylor Markerman. |
| 0:28.9 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:29.8 | I am great. |
| 0:30.8 | It's pizza today today. |
| 0:31.7 | It is pizza day. On a Thursday, it's the first time in full history. What's going on here? I don't know. It's madness. It is absolute madness. It might be in April Fool's prank. We're going to find out about 30 minutes. I'm sure it has something to do with April Fools. Yeah, because, man, anyway. |
| 0:45.4 | As you can imagine... To all our listeners, as you can imagine, we hear the Motley |
| 0:49.8 | Fool take April Fool's very seriously. |
| 0:53.9 | In fact, I'm not even talking to Taylor, I'm just kidding. |
| 0:57.1 | So today Taylor, we're talking about the possibility that hedge funds are now betting on a renewed |
| 1:01.6 | decline for crude oil below $50 a barrel. |
| 1:06.0 | Some actually is a rather large oil sands asset sale this time from Conoco Phillips. |
| 1:11.0 | But first I want to just get some quick thoughts from you on Oil's recent pop. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, well, I mean a couple of percent I don't know. |
| 1:18.0 | You brought it to my heart. |
| 1:19.0 | We've been harking on it so much lately I wanted to be positive for a bit. |
| 1:22.0 | I think you know a couple weeks ago I hit a three month low, so it popped a little bit. |
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