Bank and investor exodus worsened oil rout, traders say
Role of financial participants in price plunge adds new twist to old debate
The collapse of the oil market in late 2014 and early 2015 has had many predictable consequences: cheaper prices at the pump; pain for oil-exporting countries such as Iran, Russia and Venezuela; and a growing bonanza of deal-making as private equity firms snap up distressed oil producers.
But perhaps one surprising effect has been a revival of the long-standing debate over the impact of speculation in commodity derivatives. As in 2008, when skyrocketing prices caused widespread public criticism
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Energy Risk reaction: Venezuela and oil sanctions
Energy Risk talks to Rob McLeod at Hartree Partners about the energy risk implications of the US’s control of Venezuelan oil
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