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How HSBC is related to record US gasoline prices

How are HSBC and high gasoline prices related? Prices are driven by speculators. We “are experiencing demand shock from a new category of speculators: institutional investors like corporate and government pension funds, university endowments, and sovereign wealth funds,” said Michael Masters, managing member of Masters Capital Management, a Virgin Islands-based hedge fund. “Index […]

How HSBC is related to record US gasoline prices

How are HSBC and high gasoline prices related? Prices are driven by speculators. We “are experiencing demand shock from a new category of speculators: institutional investors like corporate and government pension funds, university endowments, and sovereign wealth funds,” said Michael Masters, managing member of Masters Capital Management, a Virgin Islands-based hedge fund. “Index […]

Bankruptcy bill backfires on Bush

Soaring gas prices are turning a record number of Americans into credit-card deadbeats. Credit card delinquencies - that’s bills overdue by at least 30 days - reached a record high of 4.81% of accounts in the three months ending in June, the American Bankers Association announced yesterday. That’s compared with 4.76% in the first […]