Benchmark: Things fall apart?

Crude Investing News reports instability in the financial markets causing crude prices to fall and the American Elections underway.

Along with OPEC production cuts and healthy company numbers, (both discussed below) the market is clearly disjointed. The tenor of discussions in the business pages and networks lately suggests that Yeats was right, and the centre cannot hold. Recession or recovery, echo boom or bust, few are predicting prolonged instability somewhere between these extremes.