Oil prices rise again…
Oil prices rise to highest they’ve been in over two months. Investors are gearing up & preparing for more OPEC production cuts. Oil has been ready for a recovery, and historically it’s hard to find a 30-day window kinder to the market than about March 15 through April 15.
Benchmark crude for April delivery gained $1.55 to settle at $47.07 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A barrel of oil, which last cost more than $50 in early January, had reached as high as $48.83 earlier in the day.
Prices are speculated to be heading toward the $50 threshold. The rally surged even as the dollar rebounded against other major currencies. Investors are prone to buy commodities like oil and gold as a protection against inflation and dollar weakness.
Oil investors often look to stock markets as a measure of sentiment on the overall economy, but crude has risen from below $35 a barrel last month despite the major U.S. equity indexes plunging to 12-year lows last week.