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Sweet Expectations | When oil "falls" a certain amount of money, is that a bad thing? |
I dont really get it. The cost of a barrell of oil fell $7 as of this morning. When the price drops is that bad, or good? Why is it bad?
Is it the same way with anything in the stock market? |
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Barney
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The price of oil and the US dollar are tied at the hip. When oil drops it's good for the value of the dollar. It's also good for refiners and the price of gas. It can even be good for those on the right side of the trade when trading commodities. If one owns shares of oil it could be a bad thing if you don't have the money to by more and do some cost averaging or the ability to trade PUT options. It's all in the trade of the trend.
You can bet our buddies at OPEC are smoking the hopeium pipe right now. |
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Doctor Deth
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Iy's good for the consumer, bad for for peope invested in Oil company stocks or speculating that oil prices will go up - today's stock market drop is due to the Financial markets again - Lehman Brothers declared Bankruptcy and a another big bank in trouble agreed to be bought by Bank of America |
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45 cal
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No it's good for the people that depend on fuel> The oil brokers & seller don't make as much but We the people feel lower prices are the best> Drill here drill know> And the prices will really drop> That's a good thing> |
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Ceres156
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oil prices falling are good for the countries needing to buy oil from opec, though OPEC would find oil falling prices a bad thing. It depends if you are the consumer or the producer whether you find this good or bad. |
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Ralfcoder
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It's generally a good thing when the price of oil falls. That oil is used to make gasoline, heating fuel, plastics, medicines, and even food. So all of those items are cheaper when the price of oil falls.
Investors are happier when stock prices go up, however. Owning stock means you own a share of a company. Think of this in small local terms. Say the local candy store issues 100 shares of stock. The value of each share is the value of the whole store, divided by 100. So if the building, the candy inside, the money the store has in the bank and in the till, and everything else it owns is worth $100,000, so if you own one share, it is worth $1000.
Now imagine that this candy store gets the contract to supply candy to every school and day care in town. (Hey, it could happen). That means they can expect some pretty good profits. That makes the value of the store go up, say by $20,000. So now your one share is now worth $1200. You didn't do anything to make that happen, but you just gained $200 - at least on paper.
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jim k
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no its a great thing, that means cheaper gas! |
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Steve D
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When the price of oil drops, it is good for the consumer, but b ad for the oil producers. Oil is used for a multitude of different products (gas and heating oil, plastics, jet fuel, etc.) and when the price drops, the price of producing these finished goods drops (since the raw materials are cheaper).
Alternately, the price drop is bad for the oil companies, since they will get less revenue from producing oil. How bad it is depends on how much it costs to produce the oil - if the price were to continuously fall, eventually, non-efficient production would be taken off-line (if production costs are higher than sales revenue) which would in turn hurt workers who would be laid off.
On the other hand, falling stock prices hurt everyone who owns stock as their assets would be worth less. If you owned 100 shares of Company X and the price of shares fell from $100 to $95, you would have just lost $500 ($5 drop per share times 100 shares). |
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