Energy Risk
Crude hits new high on inventory lows
Crude oil rose by more than $2 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) after US government data showed a drop in inventories, surprising some analysts.
Geared for growth
Gazprom Marketing & Trading's board of directors expounds on the company's history, its remarkable achievements, rapid growth in just a few short years and its plans for the future
Traders charged in Nymex Illegal Trading Investigation
Former New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) director Steven Karvellas pleaded guilty to defrauding customers following a joint probe by New York prosecutors and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Dark markets
New CFTC commodity regulations will close the Enron Loophole withtrading controls of ‘dark market’ trading, reports Daven Voorhies
Gaining from complexity: MFMC models
The Masterclass series continues with a discussion of a general multifactor,multi-commodity model. By John Breslin, Les Clewlow, CalvinKwok and Chris Strickland
Winning smiles
The winners of the Energy Risk/Risk Commodity Rankings attenda cocktail reception in London
Valid Assumptions Required: calculating correlations
Correlation measures are major drivers of value-at-risk. Brett Humphreys and Eric Raleigh review assumptions associated with calculating correlation.
Trading psychology
Psychology is a growing factor inenergy price movements requiringmore intelligent and even biologicallybased analytical systems, findsCatherine Lacoursière
Weaker oil prices ahead, says Lehman
A series of “new fundamental factors” have buoyed oil prices in 2008, but various physical and financial indicators suggest weaker prices to come, Lehman Brothers’ senior energy economist said today at a briefing in New York.
ICE & GlobalCOAL launch joint coal futures contracts
GlobalCOAL and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), have joined forces to launch two new coal futures contracts on ICE Futures Europe
ECX's CER volumes hit 10 million+ tonnes
The European Climate Exchange says volumes of its certified emissions reduction futures hit over 10 million tonnes in the first 10 days after the March 14 launch
Essent Trading - Scaling barriers
In a frank appraisal of the state of energy trading in Europe, Essent Trading CEO Paymon Aliabadi tells Roderick Bruce about Essent's attempts to overcome the issues that still confront traders, and his vision for an integrated European market
The big freeze
The US subprime crisis has shown how market illiquidity can affect trading. Yet liquidity risk is a fact of life for commodity firms. William Rhode looks at how to mitigate it
Picking up the pace
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, Sri Lanka's state-run oil supplier and refinery, is keen to increase its use of derivatives for hedging. But that's no simple matter for a government-owned company in an emerging market
EEX - An exchange of ideas
The European Energy Exchange is positioning itself as the key trading hub for Europe's energy and emissions markets. Roderick Bruce meets Tim Greenwood, head of UK operations at EEX, and Oliver Maibaum, sales and business development director, to discuss…