Oil
Asian refinery activity boosts oil derivatives trading
Refined tastes
DME’s Oman oil contract flourishes from futurisation of swaps
Shift away from swaps trading and recent price reporting agency scandals helping Oman contract, says DME chief
TNK-BP saga raises questions about BP's handling of political risk
Russian roulette
Low crude volatility to bolster spread trades, say analysts
Market participants expected to shy away from outright bets on crude oil as low volatility persists
Energy Risk Europe: Austrian Airlines risk manager rails against hedging
Austrian Airlines risk manager argues fuel hedging delays firms' adaptation to higher costs and should be avoided
Special report: Oil
Energy Risk focuses on the world's most actively traded commodity
The uncertain impact of an SPR release
Reserve nerves
The unreliability of oil price forecasting
The experts are wrong
Oil price reporting agencies' principles won't deter manipulation, say critics
International Organization of Securities Commissions principles for oil price reporting agencies fail to silence critics
QE3: The next big driver for oil prices?
The impact of easing
Energy Risk Europe 2012: Speculation tending to push oil prices lower
In recent years, speculation in oil markets has been associated with price falls more than price rises, but speculative activity is transforming the oil market into an asset play subject to new macroeconomic influences, says Leo Drollas, chief economist…
Deal of the Year, Asia: Deutsche Bank
Deal of the Year, Asia: Deutsche Bank
Oil & Products House of the Year, Asia: Morgan Stanley
Oil & Products House of the Year, Asia: Morgan Stanley
Exchange of the Year, Asia: CME Group’s Nymex Exchange
Exchange of the Year, Asia: CME Group’s Nymex Exchange
Aggressive oil hedging enables Plains E&P’s big deepwater play
Plains Exploration & Production will hedge up to 90% of its oil production for the next three years, the Houston-based company says as it reaches a deal to buy $6.1 billion of oil assets in the Gulf of Mexico from BP and Shell
IEA analyst moves to Gunvor
Gunvor has hired former International Energy Agency analyst David Fyfe as head of market research and analysis
New breed of upstream oil & gas firms have increased appetite for hedging
Hungry for hedging
Energy Risk interview: Bharat Petroleum's hedging programme
A refined view on hedging
Exodus from Cargill’s Singapore operation
Entire palm and vegetable oil trading team exits trading house
White House seeks tools to fight ‘excessive’ oil speculation
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama launched a new initiative aimed at curbing speculation in energy markets, arguing that it would help ease the pain of high gasoline prices. He urged Congress to give the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission …
Exclusive: Interview with Aramco Trading’s Said Al-Hadrami
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