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Market Prices and Uncertainty Report

Released: October 10, 2012

This is a regular monthly supplement to the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook. (archived versions)

 
Energy & Financial Markets: What Drives Crude Oil Prices?

Released: December 14, 2011

An assessment of the various factors that may influence oil prices - physical market factors as well as those related to trading and financial markets. The analysis describes 7 key factors that could influence oil markets and explores possible linkages between each factor and oil prices, and includes regularly-updated graphs that depict aspects of those relationships.

Energy and Financial Markets Initiative: Update on Work Related to Oil Markets

Released: November 18, 2010

EIA's Energy and Financial Markets Initiative " Improving information on petroleum storage capacity " Synthesis of our current perspective on oil price formation

 
Derivatives and Risk Management in the Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Electricity Industries

Released: October 1, 2002

In February 2002 the Secretary of Energy directed the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to prepare a report on the nature and use of derivative contracts in the petroleum, natural gas, and electricity industries. Derivatives are contracts ('financial instruments') that are used to manage risk, especially price risk.

 
Energy Price Impacts on the U.S. Economy

Released: April 1, 2001

A brief analysis of energy price impacts on the U.S. economy.

 
Noncommercial Trading in the Energy Futures Market

Released: May 1, 1996

How do futures markets affect spot market prices? This is one of the most pervasive questions surrounding futures markets, and it has been analyzed in numerous ways for many commodities.

 

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