It's probably not just oil, but rather a general reduction of risk from investors. People are worried about the global economic climate and are pulling their mo

It's probably not just oil, but rather a general reduction of risk from investors. People are worried about the global economic climate and are pulling their money out of stocks and putting it into more predictable, dependable assets like gold and treasury bonds, which tend to have much lower yields but also much less risk of tanking in value during bad times.