Big Oil Investors Beware

Paul Farrell writes 15 Big Oil sell signals warn of a 50% stock crash: Big Oil investors beware: "The day of the huge international oil company is drawing to a close," warned the Economist last year. Since then, Big Oil sell signals have gotten louder, more frequent, confirming fears of a crash in Big Oil, in the entire energy industry, rippling through Wall Street stocks, the global economy. When? Before the new president is elected, in 2016. Scenario like 2008, when McCain lost. Yes, the overhyped shale boom was supposed to make America energy independent, investors happy. Wrong. Risks are rocketing, volatility increasing. Why? Big Oil is vulnerable, they're running scared, making bigger, costlier, deadlier and dumber bets that threaten the global economy. Worse, Big Oil is in denial about their high-risk, self-destructive gambles. Main Street's also in denial. Yes, we're in a rare historical event now. Two bulls back-to-back, with no bear market in between. Makes investors feel it'll go forever, like 1999. True, stocks have been roaring since March 2009 when the bottom hit at 6,547 on the Dow after a 54% drop from the October 2007 high of 14,164. Since, a steady climb to a recent DJIA record at 17,279, with gains over 250%. But now our Double Bull has stopped roaring. Market cycles follow well-known patterns: As Investors Business Daily publisher Bill O'Neil explained in his classic, "How to Make Money in Stocks," for the past century the bull cycle runs for an average of 3.75 years. Then falls into a bear an average of nine months. Yes, the pattern skipped 2013, creating today's Double Bull. But market giants are warning, bye-bye bull. Jeremy Grantham, founder of the $117 billion GMO money-management firm, predicts another megatrillion dollar crash, repeating the bears of 2000 and again in 2008. Wall Street lost roughly $10 trillion each time. Graham says the next bear will hit around election time 2016. The third $10 trillion stock crash early in this new 21st century. Read more here.

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