Oil prices are heavily influenced by traders who bid on oil futures contracts in the commodities market based on their perceptions of the future supply and demand for oil. Futures contracts and oil derivatives are traded daily, which acts to influence the price of oil. This causes the price of...
Monthly data from January 1997 to January 2012 is used to investigate the impacts of different factors on world crude oil prices. The empirical results suggest that OPEC supply is the main factor and China's oil consumption share is the second most important factor with an immediate effect on ...
Stephanie Yang
In this article, the current status of biofuels and the crops used for feedstock production are reviewed to set the scene for more detailed discussion of the impacts on crop production and protection in future articles. 展开 关键词:BIODIESEL BIOETHANOL BIOFUELS CROPS FEEDSTOCKS ...
From transporting refined fuel to international economics, the list on what impacts the price at the pump is a long one. The Energy Information Administration boiled it down to four general categories. Crude oil is the biggest piece of the pie making up about 57% of the pri...
Prices at a Mobil gas station in Los Angeles on April 2.(Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images) However, a significant factor that impacts oilprices is hurricane season. AAA previously warned that hurricanes hitting the Gulf and affecting regional refineries could cause gas price...
Scheitrum, whose research focuses on the economic, trade and financial impacts of agricultural andenergy policy, broke down the situation and explained what this might spell for American consumers and oil producers. Q: What's behind this historic U.S. oil price skid?
liquidity. When you hold a contract at its expiration, you have an obligation to make that delivery to the buyer at Cushing. Normally, when contracts expire traders sell their contracts to demand sources that can take delivery, like refiners or oil storage, with minimal impacts on prices. ...
In that context, oil prices will not be the biggest factor when it comes to inflation but it is still important. Why? Because oil is basically in everything, so it’s not a volumetric impact, but it impacts price of almost everything. An increase oil price will not only be seen at ...
enacted to mitigate the economic impacts of the public health emergency. Supply of goods tightened as trade restrictions and shelter-in-place delayed production and transportation. As economies opened back up in 2021 and beyond, low unemployment put upward pressure on wages and, thus, prices. ...