Oil Producers

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Market Meltdown Means More Pain For Oil-Producing Economies

Posted by EM_Equity ⋅ September 1, 2015 ⋅ 1 Comment

By Zachary Fillingham Supply-side downward price pressure has been the story of global energy prices over the past year: newfound supply from the Shale Revolution, OPEC’s gambit of market-share grabbing inundation, and new supply coming online from Iraq and soon Iran. The result was a plunge in oil prices from $115 in mid-June 2014 to below … Continue reading →

Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives

Posted by ETFalpha ⋅ December 6, 2014 ⋅ 1 Comment

By Michael Snyder Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging home prices to cause a mortgage-backed securities implosion back in 2008, and their models did not anticipate a decline in the price of oil by more than 40 dollars … Continue reading →