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Political power
Eight years after market liberalisation, Italyis launching physical electricity forwardsand financial futures, but barriers to afreely-traded transparent power marketremain. Roderick Bruce reports
Dry bulk freight rates on a sinking ship
A combination of the credit squeeze and dwindling demand for raw materials has seen dry bulk freight rates slump to levels not seen since 2002. Peter Norfolk at SSY charts the fall
Overview and static valuation
John Breslin, Les Clewlow, Tobias Elbert, Calvin Kwok and Chris Strickland illustrate how the four most common valuation methodologies can be used to optimise gas storage and trading
David Peniket
David Peniket, president and COO of ICE Futures Europe, talks to Roderick Bruce about making bold decisions
Turkey's political pipelines
Turkey's strategic position at the crossroads of East and West has put it at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war, with energy supply a key driver. Robert Amsterdam examines the energy policies being brought to bear in the region
ETRM evolution
As energy trading and risk management systems become increasingly sophisticated, Rana Basu of TradeCapture looks at what users need to consider as they progress from implementing and using the most basic to the most complex systems
Pricing volumetric risk
Sergey Kolos and Konstantin Mardanov of Citi Commodities presenta general framework for pricing contracts with volumetric risk.They concentrate on a simple payoff and focus the discussion on themain challenge of such contracts, the pricing of the…
Every cloud...
The weather derivatives marketcontinues to gain end-user, hedge fundand investor interest. Roderick Bruceexamines the forecast and finds a silverlining on the current Wall Street cloud
Safe to come out?
As energy traders take stock after the unprecedented market turmoil of September, the Energy Risk team asks a range of key players what effects they expect the investment banking crisis to have on commodities trading and risk management
A grounded business
As high fuel costs force many airlines to introduce fuel efficiencyprogrammes and even resort to grounding aircraft, Katie Holliday looksat the likely effects of these measures on jet fuel demand and price inthe coming months
Natural gas caught by an energy price wave
US natural gas prices have been dragged up by crude oil prices despitehaving different fundamentals. Eric Fishhaut at GlobalView Softwarecharts the trend
Out of gas
High US gasoline prices are causing Americans to turn to energy-efficientvehicles, a trend that could have an enormous and long-term impact ongasoline demand, some experts say. Kate Fazzini investigates