The Market On Monday

  Good morning and welcome to March. It is 25 degrees and sunny here in the Upper Hudson Valley. Another mild day in the 40s is expected and way down the road the forecast is indicating steady days in the 50s in the seven day forecast. It's Super Tuesday, maybe Bernie can stay above water and maybe Trump crumples (not likely in fact he will clean up).

  At 8:10 a.m. ET futures are significantly higher and the price of oil is up. The market is poised to open higher.

  I've said it many times here and I'll say it again. Oil is integral to the market, as oil goes, generally so goes the market. Oil has risen 30% since it's fall off to around $25 a barrel. Does this mean that oil will continue to rise? In my own investigation, oil companies are cutting investments into expansion, not all but many are doing this. This means that the Saudi inspired shake out is working to the Saudis favor. Bottom line - gas will probably but not definitely get more expensive steadily through the year, this is simply my lightly educated guess.

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Oil prices continue to edge higher, trading around $34 per barrel. Investors around the world freaked out when oil prices plummeted to a 13-year low of $26.05 a barrel on February 11. But prices have since surged by 30%.