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January 24, 2013

Trading Volumes Underscore Brent’s Ascendance as World Oil Benchmark

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent have been locked in a multi-year wrestling match for the exalted status of the definitive world benchmark price of oil. WTI’s glaring deficiencies as a baromet…

Trading Volumes Underscore Brent’s Ascendance as World Oil Benchmark
Blog Post by Blake Clayton Energy, Security, and Climate

September 8, 2014

Russia
The Impact of Oil Exports Is Being Greatly Exaggerated

What would allowing U.S. crude oil exports do to the global price of oil? Tom Friedman, in a column Sunday, reflects popular conventional wisdom when he says they’d do a lot: “The necessary impactfu…

Impact of Oil Exports on Oil Prices
Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

July 21, 2017

Iran
Weekend Reading: Iran's Foreign Policy, Egyptian Dystopian Literature, and Protests in Morocco

Reading selections for the weekend of July 21, 2017.

MoroccoRifProtests
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

February 8, 2013

United States
Weekend Reading: Banking on the Nile, Dialogue in Bahrain, and Obama in Israel

Mohamed A. El-Erian presents seven compelling reasons that Egypt’s leadership needs to adopt new, more cooperative approaches to solving the increasingly dire economic crisis on the banks of the Nile…

WeekendReading020813
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

February 5, 2013

Fossil Fuels
Why Roll Yield Matters to Oil Benchmark Preferences

In my last post I discussed how trading volumes show a migration into ICE Brent from NYMEX West Texas Intermediate (WTI), two of the world’s most watched crude oil benchmarks. The trend is part of Br…

Why Roll Yield Matters to Oil Benchmark Preferences
Blog Post by Blake Clayton Energy, Security, and Climate