Energy
'Boom cycle' for US power prices
With input costs surging and demand growth currently outpacing supply additions in the US power market, analysts are expecting the space to tighten further. David Watkins reports
The Noble art of managing risk
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A rich but risky vein
Special Report: Commodities
Liquidity Issues
Special Report: Agriculture
Cashing in on coal
Special Report: Coal
Getting physical
Special Report: Commodity survey
Other side of the coin
Special Report: Metals
Flight plan
British Airways' Group treasurer, George Stinnes, talks to Alexander Campbell
Endless arbitrage?
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More than 50% of US companies unprepared for weather risk: report
Results of a survey carried out by CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, and weather risk management originator Storm Exchange, have found that 51% of senior finance and risk managers concede that they are under prepared to cope with…
ABN Amro rolls out another sharia investment in Middle East
ABN Amro has launched the Islamic Basic Resources and Energy Basket Yield Discovery Certificate for investors in the Middle East, a sharia-compliant product, which is designed to provide exposure to the energy and basic resources sectors.
New Record for Crude Amid Supply Disruptions
Crude Oil reached a new record of $119.93 a barrel in overnight electronic trading, up from $119.90 reached last week on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex).
Swiss Re’s Conning to manage post 2012 fund
Conning Asset Management Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Swiss Re, has been appointed to manage a pioneering EUR 125 million post-2012 Carbon Credit Fund.
UBS and Merrill Lynch lose energy traders
The latest sub prime mortgage-related write downs at investment banks UBS and Merrill Lynch, have hit their energy trading arms, and a number of traders have resigned or been made redundant in recent days.
UBS launches dry freight index
UBS has launched a tradeable index with dry freight derivatives as the underlying, dubbed the UBS Blue Sea Index (UBS-BSI).