fundamentalsGloxinia, you are not making sense in one respect. If nothing has changed in the fundamentals, then why did oil go to $147. One of the reasons is that the sovereign wealth funds have lost 40% of their dollar-denominated investments over the past 6 years and they were not going to take it anymore. Hence, the intervention in the oil market to enable them to recoup some , if not all ,of their losses. This is one conspiracy theory that makes sense to me.