Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
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One thing I forgot to point out is that the prices for oil you hear quoted
in the news every day are for futures contracts. And that price is for a
contract to be delivered in the following month.

When we saw those $145/barrel prices, that was for futures contracts and
I'd bet no product actually changed hands at that price. That's where the
speculators lose money.




Bingo.

Eisboch




Gee, is there any chance the speculators lost *all* their money? And if
they did, can they apply for a bailout from the US taxpayers at the same
time they decry socialism? :)