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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 70.79 | +0.56 | +0.80% | ||
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Bonny Light • 89 days | 78.62 | -2.30 | -2.84% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 71.67 | +0.16 | +0.22% | ||
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Mars US • 379 days | 74.75 | -1.30 | -1.71% | ||
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Gasoline • 1 day | 1.949 | -0.032 | -1.63% |
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Bonny Light • 89 days | 78.62 | -2.30 | -2.84% | ||
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Girassol • 89 days | 79.56 | -1.80 | -2.21% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 71.67 | +0.16 | +0.22% |
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Peace Sour • 1 day | 63.45 | +0.27 | +0.43% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 1 day | 63.15 | +0.27 | +0.43% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 1 day | 67.70 | +0.27 | +0.40% | ||
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Central Alberta • 1 day | 63.45 | +0.27 | +0.43% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 65.18 | +0.58 | +0.90% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 65.25 | +0.75 | +1.16% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 55.53 | +0.58 | +1.06% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 75.12 | +0.00 | +0.00% |
Simon Watkins
Simon Watkins is a former senior FX trader and salesman, financial journalist, and best-selling author. He was Head of Forex Institutional Sales and Trading for Credit Lyonnais, and later Director of Forex at Bank of Montreal. He was then Head of Weekly Publications and Chief Writer for Business Monitor International, Head of Fuel Oil Products for Platts, and Global Managing Editor of Research for Renaissance Capital in Moscow. He has written extensively on oil and gas, Forex, equities, bonds, economics and geopolitics for many leading publications, and has worked as a geopolitical risk consultant for a number of major hedge funds in London, Moscow, and Dubai. In addition, he has authored five books on finance, oil, and financial markets trading published by ADVFN and available on Amazon, Apple, and Kobo.
Latest articles from Simon
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Egypt Opens Up Giant Gas Field For Bidding And Links Arrears Payments To Product
Egypt is a key country to which Europe turned to provide gas supplies to help compensate for those lost from Russia following its invasion of…
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Three Key Energy Moves Trump Plans for His First 100 Days
Crucially for President-Elect Donald Trump’s second term in office, he will have considerable personal influence over the Senate (in which his Republican Party now holds…
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Why Qatar Was Included In TotalEnergies’ Iraqi Megaproject
Despite the very recent visit of Iraq’s Deputy Petroleum Minister, Hamid Younes al-Zobai, to Washington to spearhead his country’s latest attempts to inveigle more money…
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Is This The Eye Of The Coming Israeli Storm Of Attacks Directly On Iran?
In recent weeks, Israel has neutralised all the top leadership of Iran’s key proxy terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah which pose the main local threat…
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What Are Russia And Iran Cooking Up In Their Recent Flurry Of High-Level Meeting
A flurry of high-level meetings between very senior Russia and Iranian figures occurred over a four-week period from the end of September to the middle…
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Baghdad’s Push To End Iraqi Kurdistan Independence
It is a testament to the enduring optimism and bravery of the Iraqi Kurdish people that so many of them turned out to vote in…
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Iraq Pivots To Washington for Support as Chinese Money Dries Up
Iraq’s Deputy Petroleum Minister, Hamid Younes al-Zobai, spent last week in Washington spearheading his country’s latest attempts to inveigle more money out of the U.S.…
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With The Shutdown Over, Can Libya Now Meaningfully Boost Its Oil Production?
Libya’s oil production was cut roughly in half when a blockade of major fields and ports began at the end of August. With the shutdown…
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Crunch Time Looms For Europe’s Remaining Dependence On Russian Gas
It may astonish many to know that Russian gas has continued to make its way into Europe since the country invaded Ukraine on 24 February…
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Is The West Prepared To Deal With Potential Iranian Sabotage Of The Oil Market?
As with the Russia-Ukraine War, a key component of the Israel-Hamas War (and the underlying conflict between Israel and Hamas’s sponsor, Iran) is oil. The…
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Global Energy Security Hangs In The Balance With U.S. Electoral Uncertainty
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has become the world’s emergency energy source. It does not require years to…
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Is Israel Waiting For The U.S. Elections To Make Its Biggest Move Against Iran?
As Tel Aviv continues to trade attacks and counterattacks with Tehran and its proxies – the latest being the 1 October firing of 181 missiles…
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How Will China’s New Economic Stimulus Measures Affect Oil Prices?
China has been the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other liquid fuels since 2013, and from 2017 it also became its largest…
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What Next For Israel, The Middle East, And Oil Prices?
After the 7 October murder of hundreds of Israeli citizens by Iranian proxy terrorist organisation Hamas, the escalation to a full-blown war in the Middle…
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Western Firms Plan More Investments In Egypt’s Gas Sector
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has become the swing emergency energy supply around the globe. This is because…
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U.S. Uses Two Key Strategies To Keep Iran from Escalating Attacks on Israel
From the moment that Iranian proxy terrorist organisation Hamas launched multiple coordinated attacks on Israel on 7 October last year, the primary fear of further…
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What Iraq's Urgent Energy Talks With Washington Really Mean
Iraq is to open 10 new gas exploration blocks to international investors in the coming weeks, according to Oil Minister, Hayan Abdul-Ghani. These new contracts…
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Aramco’s New Deals With China Signal A Further Deepening Of Sino-Saudi Relations
A little under a year before the Russian invasion of February 2022, Saudi Aramco’s chief executive officer, Amin Nasser, had spent several days at the…
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Influence in This Key Oil Hub is Essential for Both The U.S. and China
Recent landmark deals by China and the U.S. reaffirm that the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) remains vital to the Middle East strategies of the two…
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Iraq At A Tipping Point As North Challenges South In Oil Showdown
In theory, the embargo on oil exports to Turkey from the semi-autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) in northern Iraq imposed on 25 March 2023…
