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In the second of two articles tracing the beginnings of energy derivatives trading, Roderick Bruce looks at the development of the natural gas and electricity markets in the US and Europe

Energy derivatives were born and matured in the crude oil markets, spurred by price deregulation and the emergence of freely-traded spot markets. When these forces converged, financial engineers at investment banks swooped to apply financial market theory to commodities, creating and feeding ever-growing end-user appetite for price risk management tools.

Deregulation in the domestic US natural gas

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