In response to
"Good point. I was going with the news reports I've seen saying the drop in the Dow was because of falling oil prices."
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ReluctantYuleLog
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Certainly, that's what every news report is going with.
Posted by
ty97
Dec 12 '14, 13:28
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And I guess if everyone assumes the market is going to drop on oil so they sell/short and the market drops, then the market did (sortof) drop on oil, if indirectly.
It's the old correlation/causation argument in part too.
But mostly it's just computers playing the players.
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