DeltaAVL From United States, joined Mar 2007, 1783 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (1 year 6 months 17 hours ago) and read 762 times:
Quoting EXAAUADL (Reply 1): oil prices fell $4 as China will finally increase the price of fuel
Allow me to translate this nearly unreadable statement:
The price of a barrel of oil fell $4 today because the middle eastern empires agreed to slightly lower the price of exported oil. Naturally, this is going to drive stock of any fuel-driven industry up.
But as I've said before, there will be no consistent airline stock rising until we see a breakthrough in energy/fuel production.
"We break, We bend, With hand in hand, When hope is gone, Just hang on." -Guster
United787 From United States, joined May 2005, 1470 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 6 months 15 hours ago) and read 660 times:
Quoting DeltaAVL (Reply 2): But as I've said before, there will be no consistent airline stock rising until we see a breakthrough in energy/fuel production.
Or a sharp reduction in consumption, which may happen if the economies of the world tank...
People in the US are driving much less than they did last year and they are buying more efficient cars. The price of gas has fiinally gotten to point that is affecting the decisions people make. Watch as shipping increasingly switches to rail over truck, how people purchase more locally, how people fly less...all of these things will bring down consumption and after the Olympics in China, I think the economy there will slow significantly...
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (1 year 6 months 15 hours ago) and read 608 times:
Perhaps it has something to to with this headline at Drudge...
SOUTHWEST, JETBLUE drop low-fare caps... Developing...
If true, that'd give SWA and B6 the ability to raise fares, and everyone else as well. Maybe that potentially improved revenue prospect is what's causing everyone to rise...