Nymex gets Hungary with oil on the boil

25 Apr 2005

New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) has posted daily and monthly volume and open interest records including highs in overall crude oil futures, oil contracts on after-hours trading system Access and E-minys traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)'s Globex electronic platform.

Crude oil futures contracts set a daily volume record of 373,048 contracts on 14 April, exceeding the previous record of 355,769 contracts set on 3 March.

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“One of our key predictions for 2011 was that geopolitical tensions will simmer more vigorously this year, particularly in the context of a market in which incremental non-Opec volumes are becoming more difficult to bring on stream and in which Opec spare capacity gets more noticeably stretched.”

BarCap's 2011 oil outlook looks increasingly accurate.