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2. New York Mercantile Exchange - Wikipedia

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   NYMEX held a virtual monopoly on "open market" oil futures trading (as opposed to the "dark market" or over-the-counter market. However, in the early 2000s the electronically based exchanges started taking away the business of the open outcry markets like NYMEX. Enron's online energy trading system

3. Price of oil - Wikipedia

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   In the wake of the 1970s oil crisis, speculative trading in crude oil and crude oil futures in the commodity markets emerged. [53] [54] NYMEX launched crude oil futures contracts in 1983, and the IPE launched theirs in June 1988. [56] Global crude oil prices began to be published through NYMEX and IPE crude oil futures market. [56]

4. Crack spread - Wikipedia

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   Crack spread is a term used on the oil industry and futures trading for the differential between the price of crude oil and petroleum products extracted from it. The spread approximates the profit margin that an oil refinery can expect to make by "cracking" the long-chain hydrocarbons of crude oil into useful shorter-chain petroleum products.

5. Brent Crude - Wikipedia

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   Oil platform in the North Sea. Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) Brent Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself.

6. West Texas Intermediate - Wikipedia

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   West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refers to the WTI Crude Oil futures contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). The WTI oil grade is also known as Texas light sweet.

7. Benchmark (crude oil) - Wikipedia

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   A benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Blend, and Dubai Crude. Other well-known blends include the OPEC Reference Basket used by OPEC, Tapis Crude which is traded in Singapore, Western Canadian ...