Topic Resources

Oil Market Fluctuations

Investors' Growing Appetite for Oil Evades Market Limits June 19, 2008

2008 [Washington Post]:"Trading Loophole for Wall Street Speculators Is Driving Up Prices, Critics Say."

Price fluctuations: A timeline June 18, 2008

2006 [CBCNews]:"A complex array of economic, political and environmental factors control the price of oil. But in the past OPEC has been able to affect the price and bring it within the desired range by either boosting or cutting production."

Praying at the Pump June 18, 2008

2007 [NYTimes]:"ONCE again, the price of oil is making Americans nervous. After falling by more than one-third since peaking above $75 per barrel last summer, the price has rebounded to $58 with the re-emergence of cold weather and news of a production cut by OPEC."

COMPLEX PATTERNS IN THE OIL MARKET June 18, 2008

2004:"More recently, the study of economic phenomena by means of tools borrowed from physics is called “Econophysics”. The studies have shown that time series of financial markets contain complex structures that eventually might reveal fundamental characteristics of the markets."