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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 91.16 | -0.74 | -0.81% | ||
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Bonny Light • 18 hours | 95.60 | -0.40 | -0.42% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 95.01 | -0.81 | -0.85% | ||
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Mars US • 2 hours | 88.73 | -0.10 | -0.11% | ||
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Gasoline • 2 hours | 2.562 | -0.058 | -2.22% |
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Bonny Light • 18 hours | 95.60 | -0.40 | -0.42% | ||
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Girassol • 18 hours | 96.55 | -0.49 | -0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 95.01 | -0.81 | -0.85% |
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Peace Sour • 17 hours | 84.13 | -0.03 | -0.04% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 17 hours | 84.63 | -0.03 | -0.04% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 17 hours | 93.23 | -0.03 | -0.03% | ||
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Central Alberta • 17 hours | 84.13 | -0.03 | -0.04% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 86.11 | -0.65 | -0.75% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 86.00 | -0.75 | -0.86% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 80.00 | -0.50 | -0.62% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 95.23 | -0.92 | -0.96% |
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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Is This The Most Successful Western Oil Major In The Middle East?
Because crude oil is still the lifeblood of any well-functioning economy and because the infrastructure surrounding it is so multi-faceted – including extensive pipelines running…
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Russia’s New Gas Deals With Iran Are A Threat To The West
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, arrived in Tehran last week for the second time since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Just before…
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How China Could Trigger The Next Sharp Selloff In Crude
If ever there had been a time when crude oil was going to reach the US$200-plus per barrel (pb) levels posted in clickbait headlines or…
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Libya’s Oil Crisis Is Far From Over
For a moment last week, it seemed that Libya might be snapping back into some version of itself more approaching normalcy than has been evident…
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Is China Preparing To Emulate Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine?
Up until Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022, it was accepted wisdom that China would not overtly challenge the U.S.’s authority across…
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Iran Moves To Expand Supergiant Oilfield Amid Global Crude Crisis
A principal strategy being used by Iran to pressure the U.S. into dropping the conditions required for a new iteration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan…
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Is Saudi Arabia Exaggerating Its Oil Production Potential?
For many years now, Saudi Arabia has been wildly exaggerating every metric connected to its oil business, from how much crude it can produce to…
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The One Issue Holding A New Iran Nuclear Deal Back
G7 leaders have been discussing the prospect of reviving the Iran nuclear talks, a French presidency official said last week and, given continuing high oil…
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China And Saudi Arabia Strengthen Alliance With New Megaproject
Ever since China gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) the opportunity to save face after his many unsuccessful attempts to float Saudi Aramco…
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Russia’s Middle East Footprint Expands With New Iran-Iraq Plan
Three events occurred in the last week or so involving either Iran or Iraq separately, or both together, that put Russia back front and centre…
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China's Geopolitical Pivot Could Have Huge Ramifications For Oil
China stated two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine that “there is ‘no limit’ to how far Russian and Chinese friendship may go” and signed a swathe of…
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Qatar Expands LNG Capacity To Become Europe’s Emergency Gas Supplier
Following on from the recent signing by Qatar of a declaration of intent on energy cooperation with Germany aimed at becoming its key supplier of…
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Oil Companies Face Huge Risk As Legal Dispute In Kurdistan Escalates
The long-running dispute over how oil flows are handled in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq – administered by its government (the KRG,…
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Libya’s Fragile Peace Is A Major Oil Market Risk
The economic pain for many countries being caused by still-high crude oil (and gas) prices may be exacerbated by another extensive series of blockades of…
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Russia Could Replicate Iran's Strategy To Skirt Oil Sanctions
The ban by the European Union (E.U.) on Russian oil imports by sea, in the first instance, is likely to affect around 75 percent of…
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Why Saudi Arabia Isn’t Giving Up On Its Russian Oil Alliance
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, met at length last week in Riyadh after which they released statements…
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Iran And Russia Expand Energy Ties Amid Ukraine War
Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, headed a high-level delegation to Iran last week, with the Kremlin-orchestrated invasion of Ukraine still in full swing. According…
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Can Qatar Really Replace Russia As Germany’s Gas Supplier?
Long before the re-emergence of the ‘Pan-Arab’ ideology now increasingly evident among several leading Middle Eastern countries, Qatar had sought to go its own way,…
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Could Iraq Dethrone Saudi Arabia As Largest Oil Producer?
Iraq’s Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, last week stated that the country aims to increase its crude oil production to 6 million barrels per day (bpd)…
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How China Could Spark A Major Reversal For Oil Prices
The huge discrepancy between China’s massive economic growth and its minimal oil and gas reserves made it the big global backstop bid for crude oil…
