Quote from Lawrence Chan:
There are things that MM firms can do (like doing buy programs on last hour), and things they cannot control (like the outcome of big 3 bailout talk, fed minute release tomorrow).
The latter one will be the key.
So what if they will decide to bail them out, short term bounce leading to more selling? It's like throwing money into fire, they will quickly burn through it & start asking for more ImPO.
BTW Pekelo, regarding the peak oil thing. I was fortunate enough to have a 'tet-a-tet' with yet another oil specialist, not collar & tie type. He has confirmed what the other chap's said, there's enough oil for many years to come at let's say yesterday's demand levels, prices rose not because we are running out of oil, but because:
1) Production is lagging behind demand curve line;
2) Oil is more difficult to 'get to' (because of political relations with countries that have oil & geographic/climate conditions of places where it's being extracted) it's leading to higher running costs, which currently stand at around £100,000 per oil rig per day (frankly I can't be certain whether he meant £ or $);
Also, there has never been an audit of the Saudi oil, apparently they have never allowed any sort of inspection, so whatever they have is based solely on what they say they have ie speculative figures;
Breakeven operations are about $20 per barrel, I can't remember exact figure.
I believe these guys

