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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 81.18 | +0.12 | +0.15% | ||
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% | ||
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Mars US • 266 days | 75.97 | -1.40 | -1.81% | ||
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Gasoline • 7 hours | 2.461 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Girassol • 29 days | 87.27 | -0.38 | -0.43% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% |
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Peace Sour • 15 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 15 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 15 hours | 79.18 | +0.89 | +1.14% | ||
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Central Alberta • 15 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 74.07 | +0.63 | +0.86% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 75.00 | +2.00 | +2.74% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 67.75 | +0.50 | +0.74% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.27 | -2.82 | -3.28% |
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Leonard Hyman & William Tilles
Leonard S. Hyman is an economist and financial analyst specializing in the energy sector. He headed utility equity research at a major brokerage house and has provided advice on industry organization, regulation, privatization, risk management and finance to investment bankers, governments and private firms, including one effort to place nuclear fusion reactors on the moon. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and author, co-author or editor of six books including America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future and Energy Risk Management: A Primer for the Utility Industry.
You can find Leonard Hyman's lastest book Electricity Acts on Amazon
William I. Tilles is a senior industry advisor and speaker on energy and finance. After starting his career at a bond rating agency, he turned to equities and headed utility equity research at two major brokerage houses and then became a portfolio manager investing in long/short global utility equities. For a time he ran the largest long/short utilities equity book in the world. Before going into finance, Mr. Tilles taught political science .
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Has The Movement For CO2 Controls Peaked?
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The Best Solution For Climate Change
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Why Southern Company Just Sold Billions In Prime Assets
On May 21, Southern Company, the utility holding company based in Atlanta, with core electric utility franchise areas in Georgia and Alabama, announced a multi-billion…
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The Coal Plant Of The Future
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants to develop so called “Coal-Based Power Plants of the Future” according to a recent Request for Information. Well,…
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Expect Electricity Prices To Rise Soon
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The World’s Most Expensive Power Project
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U.S. Electricity Sales Fall Again
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Outages: Utilities Repeat Mistakes
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Subsidies For Coal, Nuclear In The Latest Federal Budget
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South Carolina Authorities Fire Utility Commission
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Trump Proposes Sale Of Transmission Assets
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Grid Batteries Will Hurt Wholesale Power Generators
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Utility Sues Nuclear Energy Institute For Extortion
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Three Quarters Of British People Want To Re-Nationalize Utilities
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The UK May Renationalize Utilities
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A Rare High-Profile Utility Takeover
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Can The U.S. Compete In The Electric Car War?
Recently, William Clay “Bill” Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., said China was “at the heart” of the electric vehicle and the “mobility”…
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Should The State Take Over Pacific Gas & Electric?
First by poison (Aliso Canyon), then by gas explosion (San Bruno), and now by fires (Northern California). This is no joke. There’s an almost biblical…
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Regulators Rescue Troubled Vogtle Nuclear Plant
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