Oil ETFs and the Federal Reserve

“We would expect a status-quo announcement from the Fed with an acknowledgement that the outlook has improved slightly,” said Guy Wolf at commodities broker Marex Spectron Group Ltd., in a Bloomberg News report. “The U.S. economy is clearly strong, but the employment numbers are not so good that a Fed exit is imminent.”

The January nonfarm payrolls report will cross on Friday. Oil prices were trading at the highest level in over four months on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.

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