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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 72.20 | +1.74 | +2.47% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 75.73 | +1.59 | +2.14% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 73.96 | +3.19 | +4.51% | ||
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Mars US • 12 hours | 70.55 | +1.23 | +1.77% | ||
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Gasoline • 14 mins | 2.593 | -0.001 | -0.02% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 75.73 | +1.59 | +2.14% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 76.16 | +1.66 | +2.23% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 73.96 | +3.19 | +4.51% |
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Peace Sour • 3 hours | 65.15 | +1.23 | +1.92% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 3 hours | 66.45 | +1.23 | +1.89% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 3 hours | 75.40 | +1.23 | +1.66% | ||
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Central Alberta • 3 hours | 64.75 | +1.23 | +1.94% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 65.81 | +1.69 | +2.64% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 66.00 | +2.00 | +3.13% | ||
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Kansas Common • 22 days | 64.52 | +0.64 | +1.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 73.95 | +0.90 | +1.23% |
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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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Given the delicate supply and demand balance at play in the oil market, which, as analyzed in-depth in my new book on the global oil…
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Oman’s New Petrochemical Project Could Be A Game-Changer
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UAE Pumps $6 Billion Into Oil And Gas Expansion Projects
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Russia’s Lukoil Looks To Drill This 12 Billion Barrel Iraqi Oil Field
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