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Blog readers were prepared for this headline on 18 August

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By Paul Hodges on 09-Dec-2014

FT 9Dec14Above is today’s front-page headline from the Financial Times.  As readers will remember, I launched a series of major posts in the blog on 18 August, forecasting a collapse of oil prices to “$70/bbl, and probably lower“, and that the US$ would see “a strong move upwards“.  The headline confirms I was right.

The posts in the series were as follows:

August 18:  The Great Unwinding of policymaker stimulus has begun
August 27:  Oil prices break out of their triangle – downwards
September 3:  US dollar rises as investors worry low-cost money may disappear
September 10:  Great Unwinding of policymaker stimulus creates interest rate risk
September 17: Shiller warning suggests S&P 500 bubble coming to an end

In early November, I then highlighted the likely implications of these developments in a feature article for ICIS Chemical Business, which you can download here.

This Great Unwinding of policymaker stimulus is only just beginning.  I fear it will be a long and bumpy road, as global markets gradually reconnect with the fundamentals of supply and demand.

The FT headline confirms that this process is now underway.