Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 49

5-Dec-2011

Explanations Of The Recent Higher Oil Prices

By Shawkat Hammoudeh

Dr Hammoudeh is Professor of Economics and International Business at Drexel University. He can be reached at hammousm@drexel.edu.

The WTI crude price is flirting with $100/B, with US gasoline at $3.44/gallon registering a record price for this time of the year. There are certain times of the business cycle when oil prices follow equity indexes.1 Now is one of those times....