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One year after VIX blowup… WSJ
Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, has a nice piece on the trading the VIX, one year later, here... ”Speculators, a group that includes hedge-fund investors,
Yergin on the Venezuelan oil industry… WSJ
Daniel Yergin has an excellent piece on the destruction of Venezuela’s oil industry, here... ”Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the
Oil option market is quiet…
Not much to say about oil options these days, except the market is extremely quiet… Where is the volume? WTI crude options averaged only 118,514
OPEC Supply Management Policy… Bloomberg
Julian Lee, Bloomberg, writes on the difficulty implementing OPEC oil policy and finding balance, here... “Saudi production levels — which are
The Daily Shot with some oil pics… WSJ
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Sweet/sour crude spread… Bloomberg
Javier Blas, Bloomberg, discusses the sweet/sour crude oil spread, here... More sweet (increase in US oil production) and less sour (Venezuela,
Battered Oil Investors Dive Back Into Crude… WSJ
is a bit misleading headline from the Wall Street Journal, here... When one looks at the chart of investors getting long Brent crude oil,
Oil Trains Make Comeback… WSJ
Rebecca Elliott and Paul Ziobro, Wall Street Journal, discuss the increase in crude by rail, here... “An average of 718,000 barrels of crude a day