How Will Global Oil Markets React to Tomorrow's OPEC Meeting?
While the US energy markets will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, nearly everyone who has any interest in the global oil and gas...
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Is Vertical Integration A Sound Energy Hedging Strategy?
If you read our blog regularly you've likely to have read one of our posts regarding alternatives to hedging energy price risk with futures, swaps...
Chicago & Group 3 ULSD Basis Blowouts Provide Fuel Hedging Lesson
On Friday Chicago ULSD spot prices jumped $0.1875/gallon putting Chicago spot prices at $0.29 over November NYMEX ULSD futures, the highest Chicago...
Opportunistic Diesel Fuel Hedging Strategies as Oil Markets Collapse
As crude oil and refined products continue to decline, we're hearing from many commercial and industrial fuel consumers who are looking for...
Are Crude Oil Prices in the Early Days of a Sustainable Bear Market?
As crude oil prices have declined by over 20% since late June, many are now wondering, are prices approaching a bottom or are we in the early days of...
Are SDRs Exposing the Details of Large Oil Hedging Transactions?
Based on our conversations with hundreds of commodity hedgers, its safe to say that many, if not most, participants in the energy commodity markets,...
Crude Oil & Products Selling Off - What Is Your Hedging Strategy?
After reaching 2014 highs in late June, crude and product prices have declined significantly over the past few months cumulating with the largest one...
Are Airlines Changing Fuel Hedging Strategies in 2014 and Beyond?
In recent weeks, there have been several articles written on the state of airline hedging in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. So, what is the...
Is Your Crude Oil Hedging Strategy Overly Optimistic?
In our last post, we addressed natural gas producers' tendency to be overly optimistic, how it exposed many of them to unnecessary risk, and caused...