'There is no reason to be bailing out Middle Eastern overproduction': Analysts break down how to prevent further oil price volatility
Oil prices recovered this week from historical lows following a
"If not, the US should consider banning petroleum imports and retooling to refine domestic crude production — there is no reason to be bailing out Middle Eastern overproduction.""The exchange perhaps could have seen this coming and incentivized the traders to reduce their exposure . Why it wasn't done this time is a mystery to me.""The futures market for oil prices does have dynamic circuit breakers to halt trading for a period of time.
"My suggestion would be to limit the amount of speculators in oil futures contracts to prevent prices moving to such extremes.""The biggest question is from a regulation point of view and focuses on how structured ETFs are set up. Before, ETFs got too big for the market. The threat of physical delivery caused a lot of volatility around the contract expiry."
"Allowing people to work again, allowing commerce to resume, giving people a reason to start driving again will create the demand that's necessary to stabilize prices.""Daily price limits. Futures markets often limit the daily fluctuations in price. Apparently this did not apply on Monday as the price limits are often lifted just before expiration of the contract to ensure that the price really does converge to the spot price at delivery time.
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