Oil Won’t Trade This Low Forever… And The Chinese Know It! | Zero Hedge.
As we all know, the oil price has plummeted to a level we haven’t seen in more than five years and this will obviously have severe consequences for both the USA and the Eurozone as major economies. At the current oil price, a lot of the shale gas oil and gas producers are nearing the territory where they become unprofitable and might have to shut down their operations. This means that a lower oil price is both a curse and a blessing for the States. A lot of people might lose their jobs if some higher cost wells will have to be abandoned but on the other hand the lower oil price might be beneficial to other sectors of the American industrial economy.
The Federal Reserve isn’t worried yet as it said that it expects the low oil price to indeed fuel the further recovery of the American economy as the input costs will go down. The central bank expects its citizens to spend the extra money they will have at the end of the month instead of saving it. That’s an interesting thought as we would be extremely surprised to see a 1 on 1 trade-off whereby the entire amount of energy savings will be used to increase the consumption pattern. Additionally, a lower oil price will reduce the inflation rate and that might be a side effect which wouldn’t make the Federal Reserve happy as it plans to increase the benchmark interest rates from next year on.
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