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<p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Spread bets and CFDs on <b>commodities</b> should consider that <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-futures-up-on-fresh-hopes-for-economic-rebound-2010-03-02?siteid=rss&amp;rss=1" target="_blank" title="oil prices, commodities, gold prices, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets, CFDs, global economic recovery">oil prices</a> are heading a bit higher today. They have yet to break through the $80 a barrel barrier, but they are reaching for it.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Investors are look at signs of <b>global economic recovery</b>, and hoping that it means an increase in demand for oil. Japan's jobless rate had dipped, and Australia continues to show signs of good growth. There is also hope for the U.S., with an auto sales report on tap for today.</font></p> <p> <font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Oil prices</b> are also getting some support from <a href="item/251906" target="_blank" title="oil prices, commodities, gold prices, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets, CFDs, global economic recovery">gold prices</a>, which are also higher today. Commodities in general are being favoured as investors look with optimism toward global economic recovery.</font><br /></p> 9 application/xml false CFDs commodities contracts for differences global economic recovery gold prices oil prices spread bets spread betting Spread bets on commodities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 GTB6 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 63.248.48.57 false true false false true 133523 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web