Wall Street Financial Wizards Discover New Type of Mathematics - Prices Fall While Oil Gets More Expensive
While everyone in Liepāja understands that if the wind blows harder, you need to put on a warmer jacket, Wall Street financial experts have discovered a revolutionary principle - the more fuel costs, the less stocks cost.
The US Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that inflation will rise, but interest rates won't change because they haven't figured out how to do it yet. This announcement caused the same reaction as at Liepāja's North Pier when tourists first see a real Baltic Sea storm - first excitement, then panic, then quick escape.
Oil prices rose to $107 per barrel, which on Liepāja's scale means that one barrel of oil now costs as much as three days of romantic walks on the North Pier with coffee and pastries for all your friends. "We've long known that oil is expensive," comments local fisherman Gunārs. "But these Americans are now discovering that expensive oil means everything else becomes cheaper. That's like saying the stronger the wind, the easier it is to run."
Wall Street indices fell 1-1.6%, which in financial expert language means "we don't know what's happening, but the numbers are red." European exchanges also joined this mysterious mathematics - in London, Paris and Frankfurt stocks fell, while oil and gas prices simultaneously rose.
Most interesting is that markets are now waiting for central bank meetings, as if these people could solve the problem they created themselves. It's similar to waiting in Liepāja for a storm to stop blowing if you stand on the North Pier long enough and stare at the waves. But at least our storms are predictable and always eventually pass.
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