Exchanges

Open outcry fading away as Nymex fends off rivals

New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) chairman Richard Schaeffer said today that 80% of the exchange’s business is now done electronically, as the open outcry trading floor becomes “less and less meaningful”. He also outlined ambitious plans for 2008, and…

Setting the stage for 2008

As 2007 draws to a close, the Energy Risk team asked market participants what they regard as the most influential events of 2007 and how these are likely to shape market behaviour in 2008. By Stella Farrington with additional reporting by David Watkins

Solid foundations?

In a recent landmark step, India's power regulator has given 'in principle' go-ahead to the setting up of a power exchange in India. However, there is discomfort amongst potential participants over some of the regulator's plans. Rakesh Singh of Wipro…

Will they weather the storm?

The weather derivatives market saw record volumes in 2006, but these declined sharply into 2007. Evan Koster, David Cohn and Nicholas Rock of Dewey & LeBoeuf look at where the weather market, now 10 years old, may go next

The future arrives for renewables

The emerging market in renewable energy futures is expected to lower the cost of financing renewables and smooth out the volatility often encountered when running intermittent renewable resources, such as wind and solar. Catherine Lacoursière investigates

Back to basics

We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask ... Gavan Nolan, credit analyst at Markit Group in London, looks at credit indices

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