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Aug 18
22m 54s

Does the market know anything about oil?

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
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US reserves are the lowest they have been for many decades. Today on the show, Katie Martin and the FT’s Energy Editor Malcolm Moore try to figure out why the market has remained calm and if it will finally freak out. Also they go long Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan’s vocabulary and short the sun. 


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