"risk" : Energy Markets: The Instruments

This chapter will provide a review of the different instruments that can be used by energy markets participants to market or trade different energy commodities, hedge their exposures related to energy prices, or to make directional bets on market directions. The objective is to concentrate on common features shared by the various instruments, irrespective of differences with respect to underlying physical commodities. The review of such instruments is necessary in order to follow the discussio


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Energy Markets: Introduction


Energy Markets: Introduction
Energy Markets is the first of two books aimed at providing a comprehensive, systematic and extensive review of these most complex and constantly evolving markets, markets which are critical to maintaining the standard of living achieved by highly developed societies, as well as the future fortunes of emerging economies. The objective of this introduction is to explain the scope, organisation and, most importantly, the philosophy behind the book – the product of over 25 years we have spent worki

Energy Markets: Structured Transactions


Energy Markets: Structured Transactions
Structured transactions examined in this chapter differ in many important This chapter will continue our coverage of energy-related instruments available in the marketplace. As with the instruments discussed in the previous chapter, those reviewed here can be used by individual and institutional investors to acquire an exposure to energy commodities in order to speculate or to invest (with the difference between the two objectives being usually somewhat fuzzy), or to hedge pre-existing risks.


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