Energy Market Updates

NYMEX Tumbles as Markets eye Italian Election

Bears were out in full force today (actually saw them hit after the close on Monday) as all eyes were watching election results in Italy.  No clear cut winner has been announced thus casting doubt and uncertainty on recently passed austerity measures.   The effect saw the US Dollar rise against the World basket forcing Commodities to fall harder than Tom Brady's Agents Commission check.  Adding to the sell off was increasingly better news from the housing market with December values showing a .2% increase and 6.8% increase year on year.  All this and as I walked into a lunch saw Fed Chief Bernanke on a big screen TV saying the economy is far better off than in recent years and that the FED is currently looking at ways to end its quantitative easing policies.  Today had a flurry of news to push pricing down, but I still hang my hat on  the saying "high prices is the cure for high prices"  as we exit the heating season in the Northeast and some retail stations above $4.00 a  gallon,  some would say the US economy would struggle to support these energy costs.  At the close, Crude lost .48 to $92.63, HEAT fell .0672 to $3.0317 and RBOB tumbled .0795 to $2.9816. 

Italian heat chart

RBOB CLOSE
                 CLOSE       CHANGE 
  
MAR       29816       -.0795
APR        31988      -.0648
MAY      31617      -.0625
JUN         31035      -.0604
JUL          30450       -.0583
AUG        29872        -.0560
 
HEAT CLOSE
          CLOSE    CHANGE
MAR        30317      -.0672
APR        30268      -.0713
MAY       31139     -.0672
JUN        30862      -.0645
JUL        30704        -.0622
AUG       30576     -.0594
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