By Cesar Zambrano
22 July 2010
In our current economic age of globalization, asset classes are becoming increasingly correlated. Movements in the equity markets affect currency values, which affect economic growth in corresponding countries, which affects other assets such as real estate, and the correlations go on and on. One of the most clear asset correlations that currently exists in financial markets is the relationship between the oil industry and the foreign-exchange market.
The price of oil is extremely volatile. Its price movements are subject to a vast range of factors including economic growth, geopolitical events, supply and demand, and host of other factors. The volatility in oil prices can wreak havoc on oil industry leaders such as refineries and producers, but it is a haven for speculators. Individual traders and hedge funds alike have been speculating on the price volatility of oil for decades.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
