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An opinion piece discusses why oil prices swing sharply between boom and bust cycles. It links these swings to demand shifts and drilling decisions.
Volatile crude prices feed into energy costs, biofuel economics and substitution demand for feed grains, adding uncertainty to commodity pricing.
marketplace.orgKai Ryssdal, Maria HollenhorstApr 18, 2017After 102 past neutral macro events, Crude Oil (WTI) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (49% higher; middle half -3.3% to +2.5%), and +1.8% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
