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Louisiana Light • 1 day | 75.02 | +0.15 | +0.20% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 78.13 | +0.03 | +0.04% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 77.63 | +2.62 | +3.49% | ||
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Mars US • 13 hours | 71.22 | +0.02 | +0.03% | ||
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Gasoline • 26 mins | 2.669 | +0.001 | +0.03% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 78.13 | +0.03 | +0.04% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 78.83 | +0.31 | +0.39% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 77.63 | +2.62 | +3.49% |
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Peace Sour • 5 hours | 67.22 | -0.23 | -0.34% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 5 hours | 68.52 | -0.23 | -0.33% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 5 hours | 77.47 | -0.23 | -0.30% | ||
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Central Alberta • 5 hours | 66.82 | -0.23 | -0.34% |
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Eagle Ford • 1 day | 69.68 | +0.39 | +0.56% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 1 day | 69.75 | +0.50 | +0.72% | ||
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Kansas Common • 29 days | 64.52 | +0.64 | +1.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 1 day | 79.36 | +3.94 | +5.22% |
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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.
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The CIA’s Dark Prince Doesn’t Want War With Iran
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Given the greater willingness of two of Iran’s long-time allies, China and Russia, to defy the U.S.’s re-imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic – in…
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Rampant Corruption In The World’s Last Oil Frontier
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Iraq Moves To Upgrade Oil Export Capacity
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China Prepares Its “Nuclear Option” In Trade War
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Kurdistan’s Massive Gas Reserves No One Knows About
Barely a month goes past without another indication of the vast gas potential still largely untapped in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Last…
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Russia Gains Stranglehold Over Persian Gulf
In a potentially catastrophic escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Russia plans to use Iran’s ports in Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar as forward military bases…
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Iran’s Newest Escape Route To Key Asian Oil Markets
In a remarkably prescient move just after the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran at the beginning of 2016, China signed a massive land…
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Russia Squeezes Out Saudis In Asia Market Share Race
Saudi Arabia is struggling in its key economic and geopolitical ambition to position itself as the key substitute in Asia in general and China in…
