If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.
Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'