Why Are Oil Prices Rising and Should Investors Be Worried?
The Longer-Term Fundamentals While oil prices rising, investors shouldn’t lose track of the longer-term fundamentals. At its peak in 2011, 60% of the U.S. total trade deficit was due to petroleum. Last year U.S. oil production rose by 17% to a record high of 10.95 million barrels per day, in turn pushing down net petroleum […]