1. - Forget about get-rich-quick schemes involving real estate, penny stocks or gasoline futures. 2. A typical trading ploy in recent weeks has been to sell gasoline futures and buy heating oil. 3. A typical trading strategy in recent weeks has been to sell gasoline futures and buy heating oil. 4. A supply shortage of an important blending component has helped boost New York gasoline futures to an eight-week high. 5. Crude oil and gasoline futures are trading at their highest levels in five years, or at the time of the Persian Gulf war. 6. Crude oil and gasoline futures were little changed as an unexpected decline in U.S. gasoline inventories was offset by expectations additional domestic production will relieve shortages, traders said. 7. Ebbing demand and fewer refinery disruptions in recent weeks pushed gasoline futures to their lowest price in two months Monday. 8. For example, a peak in gasoline futures during the past two years was followed by a peak in pump prices about a month later. 9. Gasoline futures are higher than at any time in four years. 10. Gasoline futures jumped for a second day as a shortage of an additive used to make cleaner-burning fuel boosted wholesale prices on the U.S. East Coast. |