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Oil above $70 and the threat of a weakening U.S. economy are going to shake out those hangers-on in all markets. Oil affects just about everything, from companies' costs to consumers.


Angus Gluskie

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JAN LEROY A higher oil price is like a tax on consumers. It pushes up price levels and consumers are going to ...
GEOFF LEWIS High oil prices hit American consumers more sharply than Europeans. I am concerned that companies wi...
MARIANO SANCHO We are certainly seeing the influence of higher oil prices on the U.S. economy.
KOICHIRO SUZUKI Factors in the U.S. will keep moving oil prices. The U.S. will continue to import oil products to fe...
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JACQUES PORTA oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.
RODRIGO RATO People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
RODRIGO RATO There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consu...
PETE DOMENICI I expect the integrated oil sector to help support the market if it goes down. Aside from the fact t...
BRUCE LANNI These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.
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ALAN KRAL For oil markets, it's all about the weather.
DAVID KNAPP Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON That's an easy scare tactic for the oil companies to use against consumers.
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MARK ZANDI Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies ...
CRAIG BENNETT In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND While the focus of recent international attention has rightly been on the tragic events in the U.S.,...
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ALAN RICHARDSON The national oil companies agreed to invest and the international oil companies backed away.
ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on...
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EUBEN PARACUELLES We may be in for a good trading session today. The good news from Japan and a pull-back in oil are p...
BARRY RITHOLTZ I can only see the [energy] market expanding. As energy becomes more expensive there are going to be...
HERBERT SMITH There are fears in the market that the supply from Iran could be reduced. This is obviously positive...
MARKUS ILG The U.S. is currently under a crude oil mandate, because few if any other choices exist for our tran...
BRIAN JENNINGS There are fears in the oil markets of the continued supplying of markets with crude oil although the...
SHEIKH AHMAD Americans, including the president of the U.S., have realized continued dependence on oil, particula...
MATT HARTWIG U.S. markets are starting to worry about the earnings of multinational companies in the face of the ...
ALEX WONG Galveston was down and out when the state economy shifted from agriculture to oil in 1901. Houston w...
CASEY GREENE I think the major oil companies are going to be looking for more oil in more remote areas. The more ...
BOB POPE They get nothing out of the oil, and they produce all of the oil. They're tired of it, so they're go...
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LOUIS WONG The metabolism of the oil industry picks up pretty smartly when oil gets above $40 a barrel. It's fa...
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EDMOND CHAN They are supposed to compete and bring the lowest price to consumers. But the truth is that a small ...
JAMIE COURT World oil markets are fundamentally tight.
AF ALHAJJI The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring auto...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT To make bio-diesel from vegetable oil, you get the oil from the restaurant, heat it up to about 120�...
JACQUES CHIRON But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and thi...
PETER DEFAZIO The commercial response we've received confirms the project is a cost-competitive way to link rising...
HAL KVISLE a gift to the oil companies.
CHARLES SCHUMER This is not a very hospitable political environment to challenge the oil industry, ... We have a pre...
BYRON DORGAN The U.S. economy is a very strong economy; if there is a sudden cutoff of Saudi oil, and Americans s...
AMY JAFFE The U.S. economy is a very strong economy; if there is a sudden cutoff of Saudi oil, and Americans s...
AMY MYERS JAFFE If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame ...
DAN SEALS We've had a pull-back in gold and oil prices, and surprise surprise, oil and gold companies are off,...
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ROLAND AVANTE The key thing is you are going to see a separation from the true companies -- those that are going t...
GREGG HYMOWITZ More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a m...
FREDERIC LASSERRE We are looking at where the next lift to markets will come from and people are not so sure. With oil...
GEOFF LANGHAM I'm planning to accumulate more Treasuries. Higher oil prices are going to depress consumption. It's...
AKIRA TAKEI It's fairly safe to say that the trade deficit may have peaked now that oil prices are falling and t...
BERNARD BAUMOHL These are turbulent times for oil markets.
ALI NAIMI We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or...
AHMED IBRAHIM There are many plans to build refineries, but with rising construction costs and a shortage of proje...
HISAO SATO It's about greedy corporations that are willing to blow up all of Paris - art, nature, everything - ...
DENISE SCHULZ There are a few signs of cracks beneath the surface in the U.S. economy, starting with the weak dura...
HARVINDER KALIRAI The release of strategic reserves contains a very large component of unneeded crude oil and does lit...
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HAROLD HAMM the Senate caved in to oil and gas companies that are rolling in record profits.
KAREN WAYLAND There is a lot of concern about oil and its impact on growth in the U.S. and globally, and that's a ...
ANN HURLEY Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when the...
DUNCAN DAVIE Treasuries are near the levels where investors think they offer value. Core inflation looks calm, so...
MASAYUKI YOSHIHARA That's where the oil is. It's the best place to look for oil in the United States, and there's predi...
MARK RUBIN All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on tra...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ Production costs have now become the most important factor for oil companies. They will drag down th...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE There will be just too much risk of geopolitical shocks in 2006 for oil prices to fall sharply and i...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy whe...
JASON SCHULTZ Sugar prices in the past few months have pulled back because of the weaker oil price. Now that oil i...
CHRISTOPH EIBL Iran is starting to loom in the picture as a threat to oil capacity.
CRAIG RUSSELL The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY All the tensions and stress in the world's oil markets are flowing into the gasoline pump. The crude...
DANIEL YERGIN There's been concern about how much higher oil prices will be felt by consumers, but people are now ...
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LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN Consumers can find out if there are any trans fats in an item by reading the ingredients. If shorten...
CYNTHIA SASS The U.S. economy is kind of a juggernaut. Look at the last few quarters, how it shook off oil price ...
PAUL MERSKI Higher borrowing costs will lead to a shrinking housing market and a slowdown in the U.S. economy. O...
NORIHIRO FUJITO The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON OPEC is likely to be a critical event next week. A cut in production, however, seems quite unlikely ...
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