Yup, he's good alright. Here's a scary chart. West Texas Intermediate Crude. It has an almost textbook inverse H&S formation. If a double top is formed at 39.99 but rising support holds, an ascending triangle could also be in play:
The Inverse H&S target is about $62/barrel. The ascending triangle would be around $55/barrel.
Translation? The oil market seems to be discounting (or in this case, marking up) in anticipation of civil war in Iraq.
I looked this up because our local price jumped $0.25/gallon in a matter of hours today and I wanted to see if anything was up.
I do not recall exactly (Zeev knows for certain) how much each $1.00 increase in oil subtracts from US GDP. I think it was around 0.2%. If oil went up $25/barrel, that would subtract 5% from GDP. That's the stuff recessions are made of.
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