Roberto Barros

Oil traders should prepare for increased volatility in oil prices and trade flows as the availability of energy from renewable sources, geopolitical uncertainties related to US energy policy and the shale revolution’s impact on fundamentals begin to be priced into the market, said Jens Økland, executive vice-president of marketing, midstream and processing at Statoil. Økland said the Norwegian oil firm wants to “build resilience” to volatility by stepping up trading activities that take adva

It is easy to see why regulators often favour ambiguity over precision: make a rule too rigid and a loophole can easily be exploited. But on the flip side of that argument, overly broad regulations can be interpreted to apply to anything and everything; or, equally as bad, hit the wrong target. In the case of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (Ferc) approach to anti-manipulation enforcement actions, lawyers and market participants say there are too many shades of grey. “There is

Nodal Exchange is planning to launch power and natural gas contracts during the second quarter of 2017, the Virginia-based electricity futures exchange’s chief executive officer has told Risk.net. “In order to continue growing our market share, we will introduce options in 2017, which is a product we have not listed yet,” says Paul Cusenza, chairman and chief executive of Nodal Exchange. “By having options, that will help us with some of the outright contracts we have not been as strong in.”