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Oil & Products House of the Year: JP Morgan
Two years ago, things were looking grim for refineries on the US east coast. Without pipeline links to the supplies of cheap oil coming from places such as the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, they were dependent...
In the first quarter of 2012, Chesapeake Energy needed cash. The Oklahoma City-based natural gas producer had made an ill-timed decision several months earlier to remove most of its hedges on US natural...
It’s been a tough year in the European natural gas market. Market participants have faced a range of tricky challenges, including high gas prices, negative margins on gas-fired plants, an influx of renewable...
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Electricity House of the Year: EDF Trading
The past year has been tough for power market participants. In Europe, an influx of renewable generation has pushed down power prices, rendering short-term price swings less predictable and making the business of trading electricity trickier and less...
Coal House of the Year: Deutsche Bank
Although it is a newer entrant in the coal market than some of its rivals, this year’s Coal House of the Year, Deutsche Bank, has played to its strengths at a time of shifting patterns in global markets, using its strong coal derivatives desk and physical...
Emissions House of the Year: CF Partners
With the world’s largest emissions market facing a period of stark uncertainty about its future, the past year has not been great for carbon traders. Doubts have been cast on the viability of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) ever...
Weather House of the Year: Swiss Re
Weather derivatives are still viewed as obscure and strange by some market observers, but they are now part of the standard risk management toolkit for energy firms whose fortunes can rise or fall in line with weather conditions. And when such firms need...
Freight House of the Year: Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank wins this year’s Freight House of the Year award for supporting the freight derivatives market through a difficult 18 months of very low liquidity. In the forward freight agreement (FFA) market, the bank completed well over 115,000 lots...
Base Metals House of the Year: SG CIB
Over the past 18 months, base metals have not seen quite the same roaring trade as they have done in previous years. By May 2013, metals such as copper, lead and tin stood at similar price levels to those they were trading at during the beginning of 2012....
Precious Metals House of the Year: Deutsche Bank
Gold prices saw a reversal of fortunes in April, with talk of a sizeable sale of reserves by the Central Bank of Cyprus sparking fears across the wider market. Having hovered above $1,600 per troy ounce for much of the second half of 2012, spot prices...
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