The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[CT]

Yes, I hesitated mentioning that ticker for that very reason. However, it has a few things going for it. One, of all of its peers (XOM, CVX, COP,etc), it's [daily price % chg] the most positively correlated to NG. Two, it's very highly correlated to the purer NG plays in the basket like CHK. Three, and most important, its trading liquidity, in context of this basket, is important to my employer. Therefore, if I'm going to keep up with one of the integrateds, for now it's going to be OXY. Blade, could certainly do without OXY.

As it is, this interest in NG is only a tiny part of my job and the rest is not concerned with individual equities at all.

Chris

OXY may not stay the most correlated to NG now that XOM has munched XTO.