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"Petrocurrency" or (more commonly) "petrodollars" are popular shorthand for revenues from petroleum exports, mainly from the OPEC members plus Russia and Norway.Especially during periods of historically expensive oil, the associated financial flows can reach a scale of hundreds of billions of US dollar-equivalents per year – including a wide range of transactions in a variety of currencies ...
The oil-storage trade, also referred to as contango, is a market strategy in which large, often vertically-integrated oil companies purchase oil for immediate delivery and storage—when the price of oil is low— and hold it in storage until the price of oil increases. [1]
West Texas Intermediate oil prices briefly went negative for the first time in history in April 2020. [1]In economics, negative pricing can occur when demand for a product drops or supply increases to an extent that owners or suppliers are prepared to pay others to accept it, in effect setting the price to a negative number.
Dollar-cost averaging helps minimize losses. While both approaches show losses, the dollar-cost averaging strategy delivers a $2,550 loss, compared to a steeper $4,800 loss with the lump sum approach.
Crack spread is a term used on the oil industry and futures trading for the differential between the price of crude oil and petroleum products extracted from it. The spread approximates the profit margin that an oil refinery can expect to make by "cracking" the long-chain hydrocarbons of crude oil into useful shorter-chain petroleum products.
Oil futures dropped as much as 2% on Wednesday before paring losses as traders weighed what Donald Trump's presidential victory could mean for energy prices.
Especially during the years 1974–1981 and 2005–2014, oil exporters amassed large surpluses of "petrodollars" from the sale of oil at historically high prices. [1] [2] [8] (The word has been credited alternately to Egyptian-American economist Ibrahim Oweiss and to former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson, both in 1973.) [9] [10] [11] These petrodollar surpluses could be described ...
The Fed also said it sees a deceleration in economic growth, with the economy forecast to grow 1.4% next year before picking up slightly to 1.8% in 2025 and 1.9% in 2026. Oil rig and pump of H&P ...