Common sense suggests that some signals would affect both oil prices and the stock markets.
But that's not what we've been seeing lately. The two have instead been moving in almost lockstep connection. When one moves, so does the other, no matter the reason.
It seems common sense isn't in charge of the markets any more. Here's why...
Common sense suggests that some signals would affect both oil prices and the stock markets.
But that's not what we've been seeing lately. The two have instead been moving in almost lockstep connection. When one moves, so does the other, no matter the reason.
It seems common sense isn't in charge of the markets any more. Here's why...
For a long time there wasn't much of a connection between oil and stocks, and there was even an inverse relationship between them.
But since the turn of the century, and especially over the past two years, they've begun to move in lockstep, diving and rising together.
