Oil prices touch $102.08

Unfortunately, oil prices are not playing nice. The Fed would like to cut rates but inflation just will not go away.

The price of oil has hit a record high for the second day running, touching $102.08 a barrel for US sweet crude. However, the figure is still surpassed in inflation-adjusted terms by the peak of $102.53 reached in 1980, the International Energy Agency says. The oil price surge is supported by traders switching their cash out of shares and currencies and into commodities, traders say

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