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Crude Is Crashing
As the Dollar Index surged post-manufacturing data, WTI Crude began to lose altitude from its overnight ramp. Combined with ongoing concerns over Libya's production ramp, crude just crashed from over 55.00 to under 53.00 in minutes on heavy volume... It seems the catalyst was the USD index breaking recent highs... But now both Oil and the dollar are tumbling... But as Bloomberg notes, Libya, the holder of Africa’s biggest crude reserves, is ramping up output from its biggest oil field again after two years of internal conflict, the latest reminder of just how vulnerable OPEC’s quest to clear a global crude glut ... (full story)