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Oil Futures Running Way Ahead of Demand

By Jim Cramer

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 Do I buy the Goldman Sachs call that oil's going to $85 this year and $95 next? I would have if there weren't such a huge short squeeze going on in the oil pits. I would if the oil futures were "deep" instead of easily manipulated. I would if there were higher margin requirements. But you know what? These futures I am convinced absolutely have almost nothing to do with worldwide demand. When oil went to $140 - heck, when natural gas went to $14 -- these was nowhere near the demand for either that the futures were indicating. In fact, I think it is worse: The world is still awash with oil, and we know from Transocean that virtually no big projects were canceled. There's oil coming on stream all of the time. Plus natural gas. The stuff can't get out of its own way. My...

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