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To: elmatador who wrote (40317)9/24/2008 7:19:48 AM
From: Moominoid  Respond to of 217617
 
Only the expiring contract was affected by the spike. None of the other months. It was a short-squeeze as speculators on the short side wanted to get out of the contract before it became deliverable with physical oil. It wasn't "money going into oil".