Fears are growing that rising gasoline prices could stifle economic recovery. Those rising gasoline prices are becoming a subject of hot political debate in a presidential election year. Geopolitics is behind the rising prices, most noticeably due to the increasing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
Widely followed commodities trader Dennis Gartman on Monday said he wasn’t concerned about an official slowdown in China.
"Of the last $20 in the Brent crude oil price rise, I would only attribute about $5 to Iran and 15 to liquidity and continued quantitative easing and just the fact that the supply of money continues to rise," Sabine Schels, senior director and global commodity strategist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, told CNBC, because it is "dropping the value of money, relatively to the value of real asset," she explained.
The “Fast Money” pros weren’t concerned that the effect of a Saudi pipeline explosion - false, as it turns out - would last.