George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble [View All]

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Source: Telgraph UK

Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned.

The billionaire investor's comments came only days after the oil price soared to a record high of $135 a barrel amid speculation that crude could soon be catapulted towards the $200 mark.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Soros said that although the weak dollar, ebbing Middle Eastern supply and record Chinese demand could explain some of the increase in energy prices, the crude oil market had been significantly affected by speculation.

"Speculation... is increasingly affecting the price," he said. "The price has this parabolic shape which is characteristic of bubbles," he said.

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It's looked increasingly like a bubble since the price reached $80/bbl. Funny how we can be in the middle of a bubble meltdown in real estate, yet few people make the correlation.

Tulips, anyone?