How the price of oil affects stock prices

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Brent oil hit its highest level since 2011 this week. Investors are puzzled as to how the oil price development will affect the markets.

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Frankfurt Over the past two months alone, the price of oil has risen by around a third. Brent oil also hit its highest level since 2011 this week. Even if the crisis and the prices eased in the meantime on Wednesday, investors are still puzzling over how a high oil price will affect the shares.

It is about the question of what opportunities individual sectors and entire classes of stock market stocks have. Promising trends can be mapped with exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The British Barclays Bank has examined this question using periods of sharp rises in energy prices over the past few decades. The experts are concentrating on cases in which the price surge resulted from a shortage of supply; they name the years 1979, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2008 and 2022.

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