3/01/21
Updated Monthly
Oil Prices: Updated Monthly
3/01/16......$34.49
3/01/21......$63.41
Up 84%(rounded)
(oil prices approximately five years earlier due to weekends & holidays)
West Texas Intermediate prices
Up 84%(rounded)
(oil prices approximately five years earlier due to weekends & holidays)
West Texas Intermediate prices
OIL INDICATOR: NEGATIVE!
Oil prices are well known for their volatility in the short term, longer term due to dwindling reserves energy prices are in a secular bull market. Technologies such as fracking will extend the life of oil fields but major new discoveries arrive at a snails pace far slower than the world's growth.
As long as prices rise in a slow and orderly pace our economy can adjust to those changes, however if prices spike (international tensions, war etc.) high energy costs behave as a massive deflationary tax. This will send our economy tumbling down and very possibly the U.S. stock market.
If oil prices rise greater than 75% from five years earlier, investors at that time should shift their portfolio geared towards deflationary times. This would be an oil indicator as negative.
If oil prices rise from five years earlier less than 10% or drop then the inflationary play is in effect; a positive for economic growth along with possible higher stock prices.
Where to find five year earlier oil prices? Alaska Department of Revenue
Oil indicator positive
5% High-Yield Corporate Bonds
10% REIT's
10% Energy
10% P.M.'s
65% Small Caps
0% Lt. Gov't Bonds
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Or...Investors desiring simplicity
100% Vanguard's Wellington Fund symbol VWELX
On average 65% stocks - 35% bonds
Oil indicator negative
5% REIT's
10% Energy
10% P.M's
10% Small Caps
65% Lt. Gov't Bonds
5% REIT's
10% Energy
10% P.M's
10% Small Caps
65% Lt. Gov't Bonds
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Vanguard Funds
REIT's
REIT Index Admiral VGSLX
Energy
Energy Fund VGENX
Precious Metals (P.M.'s)
Global Capital Cycles Fund VGPMX
Small Caps
Small Cap Value Index Admiral VSIAX
High-Yield Corporate Bonds
High-Yield Corporate Bond Fund VWEHX
Long Term Government Bonds
Long-Term Government Bond Index Admiral VLGSX
Or...Investors desiring simplicity
100% Vanguard's Wellesley Income Fund symbol VWINX
On average 35% stocks - 65% bonds
Vanguard Funds
REIT's
REIT Index Admiral VGSLX
Energy
Energy Fund VGENX
Precious Metals (P.M.'s)
Global Capital Cycles Fund VGPMX
Small Caps
Small Cap Value Index Admiral VSIAX
High-Yield Corporate Bonds
High-Yield Corporate Bond Fund VWEHX
Long Term Government Bonds
Long-Term Government Bond Index Admiral VLGSX
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