Excerpt from:  Financial Spread Betting Strategies
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October 03, 2007

Oil Prices and Financial Spread Betting Strategy

Placing spread bets on oil prices
Placing spread bets on oil prices should consider that the commodity, though it closed down yesterday, is set rise today in the U.S. Oil prices and financial spread betting strategy should consider that inventory numbers are expected today, and that will have bearing on oil prices. MarketWatch reports on oil prices:

"The main feature on tap for today are the EIA [Energy Information Administration] numbers," said Edward Meir, an analyst at MF Global, in a research note.

Given predictions of a significant decline in crude inventories, "we would be wary about going short into the numbers," Meir said.

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