on tuition from Chinese students: “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in
Russian Natural Gas Industry Booms… WSJ
Georgi Kantchev, Wall Street Journal, explains what’s been going on in the Russian gas industry, here... “Directly squaring off against U.S. shale
Gasoline/diesel margins… EIA
The EIA’s Today in Energy, here, highlights a tale of two petroleum products: ”Flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United
Oil’s Huge Drop… WSJ
Stephanie Yang and Amrith Ramkumar, Wall Street Journal, do an excellent job writing about the collapse in crude oil prices, here... "As economic
Options skew is bearish… Bloomberg…
Alex Longley, Bloomberg, has a nice chart showing the degree to which out of the money put options are in demand relative to out of the money calls...
WTI options update…
Yesterday's crude oil options' volume was heavy with over 340,324 trading... Prices settled sharply lower, implied vol was up 12.3, to 48.8, based on