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Oil's endless bid : taming the unreliable price of oil to secure the economy / Dan Dicker

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]Description: xiv, 338 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780470915622
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.23282
Contents:
Introduction : the oil market is broken
Chapter 1. A brief look back at the good old days of oil trading
Part I. Oil's endless bid : what caused it?
Chapter 2. The assetization of oil, part 1 : commodities aren't stocks
Chapter 3. The assetization of oil, part 2 : the problem with commodity indexes and exchange-traded funds
Chapter 4. The rise of the investment banks and their financial finagling
Chapter 5. Increased access to trading oil : the trading floor goes online
Part II. The destruction of reliable fundamental pricing of oil
Chapter 6. Why oil traders don't care about the price of oil - or the value of the dollar
Chapter 7. Oil traders couldn't care less about peak oil
Chapter 8. Alternative sources of oil
Chapter 9. Proof of oil's endless bid : crack spreads
Chapter 10. The fuel that the endless bid forgot : natural gas
Part III. Where are we headed?
Chapter 11. What needs to be done
Epilogue : oil's endless bid appears in the Gulf of Mexico
Appendix A. A brief review of the history of futures
Appendix B. An extreme example of intervention in the futures market : how three Dallas oil tycoons tried to corner the silver market
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Includes index.

Introduction : the oil market is broken

Chapter 1. A brief look back at the good old days of oil trading

Part I. Oil's endless bid : what caused it?

Chapter 2. The assetization of oil, part 1 : commodities aren't stocks

Chapter 3. The assetization of oil, part 2 : the problem with commodity indexes and exchange-traded funds

Chapter 4. The rise of the investment banks and their financial finagling

Chapter 5. Increased access to trading oil : the trading floor goes online

Part II. The destruction of reliable fundamental pricing of oil

Chapter 6. Why oil traders don't care about the price of oil - or the value of the dollar

Chapter 7. Oil traders couldn't care less about peak oil

Chapter 8. Alternative sources of oil

Chapter 9. Proof of oil's endless bid : crack spreads

Chapter 10. The fuel that the endless bid forgot : natural gas

Part III. Where are we headed?

Chapter 11. What needs to be done

Epilogue : oil's endless bid appears in the Gulf of Mexico

Appendix A. A brief review of the history of futures

Appendix B. An extreme example of intervention in the futures market : how three Dallas oil tycoons tried to corner the silver market

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