GHF Group Hedge Fund Surges on Higher Oil

Online, March 8, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Both institutional traders and high net worth individuals are betting big on further oil price increases. This is in great contrast to the struggling world economies finding their way from a long global recession. Last week the West Texas Intermediate crude contract sales jumped, mostly due to speculators who are not end users of the commodity.

Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission indicate nearly fifty thousand new contracts were purchased by this category of buyers. This jump in speculative money towards oil futures show that major financial players are anticipating the price of WTI crude to surge well above the recent $104.49 seen last week. If their predictions are correct, it will bring $4 gasoline per gallon a step closer.

The speculative zeal is so significant that the larger trading firms now have almost twice as many long contracts open as they owned in 2008, when oil spiked to $146 in the summer, a development that either pre-indicated or caused the global economic meltdown, depending on one's perspective.

This adds to mounting evidence of a further rise in oil prices, which will only compound the squeeze on consumer's wallets. If oil and other commodity prices continue upwards, it is only a matter of time until the economy says enough.

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