Filed under: Market matters , Anadarko Petroleum (APC) , Oil , Cramer on BloggingStocks TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says there's a big disconnect between the trade, orchestrated by the funds, and the real-world demand. How can anyone actually own oil or natural gas through this relentless assault on price? I know when it was going up, the talk was that all of these new funds were indexing trillions to commodities and it was just going to stay there, and that's why there was a new level of oil demand. Can those same accounts come in every day and take this relentless pasting no matter what the news? And do they believe the news, that they are losing money today because some storm went to Daytona and not to New Orleans? Yesterday, I had Jim Hackett, the CEO of Anadarko Pete (NYSE: APC ) ( Cramer's Take ) on "Mad Money at the Half," and he was flabbergasted at the activity in the futures pit and how unrealistic it has become. He's focused on natural gas, where he says the demand at $8 by industry -- the glass makers and chemical companies and steel and aluminum users -- is voracious. But the futures themselves just keep going down, regardless of the demand. Are these markets totally dysfunctional and not worth anything? Are they what companies realize? Are they what should matter? Or are they just institutions, not indexing at all but piling in when the commodities were going higher and now piling out faster than the actual users can ...
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Filed under: Market matters , Anadarko Petroleum (APC) , Oil , Cramer on BloggingStocks TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says there's a big disconnect between the trade, orchestrated by the funds, and the real-world demand. How can anyone actually own oil or natural gas through this relentless assault on price? I know when it was going up, the talk was that all of these new funds were indexing trillions to commodities and it was just going to stay there, and that's why there was a new level of oil demand. Can those same accounts come in every day and take this relentless pasting no matter what the news? And do they believe the news, that they are losing money today because some storm went to Daytona and not to New Orleans? Yesterday, I had Jim Hackett, the CEO of Anadarko Pete (NYSE: APC ) ( Cramer's Take ) on "Mad Money at the Half," and he was flabbergasted at the activity in the futures pit and how unrealistic it has become. He's focused on natural gas, where he says the demand at $8 by industry -- the glass makers and chemical companies and steel and aluminum users -- is voracious. But the futures themselves just keep going down, regardless of the demand. Are these markets totally dysfunctional and not worth anything? Are they what companies realize? Are they what should matter? Or are they just institutions, not indexing at all but piling in when the commodities were going higher and now piling out faster than the actual users can ...