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Oil price reaches record high  

04 March 2008


Oil price continue to climb spooking most markets.  read more...

Oil prices continue to spook markets  

11 February 2008


Oil prices influencing gas and power along the curve.  read more...

Fear factors and risk premia  

16 August 2006


Risk premia and fear will always effect markets one study suggests that $20 + is the risk premia in oil and whilst one doubts it as high in power and gas it is there. What is clear is that as the market stabilises, confidence grows and the risk premias fall.  read more...

Prompt stronger, but curve softer  

07 August 2006


Market ticking along waiting for fresh news, but what news that is out there is causing players to hold the length at the fornt and sell the backend.  read more...

Middle East explodes in the markets  

17 July 2006


The short term facts suggest that the market had to go higher, but this does not mean that we should see the back end of the curve rise inexorably as well. Some sellers are keeping a cap on the backend of the curve but the buyers also have to be disciplined.  read more...

Market Marginally down  

14 July 2006


Oil fears continue to drive the market but both gas and power are reacting well to the various demands, and although ticking up are doing so in a controlled and rational way (not always the case in the past!)  read more...

The Buckinghamshiries are not helping......  

13 July 2006


The oil price has been badly effected by what looks to be a disproportional response to the frnge attacks on Israel.  read more...

Oil worries continue to spook.  

24 April 2006


Oil prices are supposedly spooking markets, power and gas have remained oblivious to it. But if Rough storage is slow to comeback on cue with American oil demand increasing then expect big price rises in Q3 06.  read more...

Winter up on delayed reaction to the Winter outlook  

12 October 2005


Doom mongers drive power prices up on the possibilities of an assasination and a repeat of World War One.  read more...

Oil bulls return  

09 August 2005


Markets rise on oil fears hitting new highs, gas trcikles up and Carbon looks to respond. The bulls are back in town.  read more...

Terror - Slows Market  

07 July 2005


Markets calm in the wake of terror attack.  read more...



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