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Peter Stone
Investors
Observer.com
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Exxon Mobil (XOM) is the largest company in America and worth about $318 billion dollars. Because oil literally fuels industrial production, transportation, and heating across the United States, everything is intricately linked to oil. Even though oil prices are down now, if the economy recovers oil demand will recover as well. Oil is used in a large number of products that we don’t normally think about like blacktop, plastics, and electricity. While oil can always move unexpectedly, a hedged trade could give you a nice return.
In order to understand oil one must know the complex factors that figure into its production. Many people seem baffled by the strange behavior of oil prices when they do not need to be. Oil is an input in almost every good. Everything that is shipped uses oil or gasoline, from produce shipped to the local grocery store to the plastic bags used to carry home the groceries.
Once oil is extracted from the ground, it is hard to store it. Most people don’t keep a lot of gasoline in the garage and when they need it they expect it to be available at the gas station. People are typically unwilling to increase gasoline consumption if the price falls a few cents. As a good, gasoline is very...
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