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PRAs under attack amid market manipulation investigations
Price reporting agencies (PRAs) are facing intense scrutiny from regulators, amid renewed allegations that their widely used price indexes are being manipulated by unscrupulous energy traders. Will the...
Netting and optimal execution effects may help other CCPs reduce margin requirements, says NYU maths professor Marco Avellaneda
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Applied risk management series: Optimising commodity hedging programmes...
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Sponsors' statement: E.ON
E.ON has combined its trading and gas supply businesses to create E.ON Global Commodities, one of the world’s leading participants in the international wholesale energy markets
Low Brent creates window of opportunity for hedgers, say analysts
Brent crude oil offers a window for airlines and refiners to lock in prices, but opportunity won’t last forever, say analysts
Skylar’s Perkins sees potential for volatility in US natural gas
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The rise of iron ore derivatives
A shift in the way iron ore cargoes are priced has helped give rise to a burgeoning market for iron ore derivatives. Interest in trading the product has come from a wide range of participants, including producers, consumers and investors – making it...
Gas market participants rail against mandatory bundling
The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators hopes a new network code on capacity allocation will promote a more efficient and open gas market in Europe. But market participants warn the principle of mandatory bundling embedded in the code could...
Cutting edge: Minimising risk when hedging crude oil options
In this paper, Christian-Oliver Ewald, Roy Nawar and Tak Kuen Siu study the performance of locally risk-minimising hedging strategies in the context of futures and options written on crude oil. In contradiction to prior research, the authors show it is...
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