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- Upholding the Sanctity of Contracts: Is Gazprom Listening?
- Craig Pirrong submits: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at Dmitri Medvedev’s stirring defense of the sanctity of contracts: President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday accused Ukraine of seeking changes to a contract for the transit of Russian gas across its territory, the latest row over...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Is Excessive Speculation in Oil and Commodities Markets Actually Occurring?
- Craig Pirrong submits: Almost exactly a year ago, I testified before the House Ag Committee and wrote an oped for the WSJ on the effect–or lack thereof–of speculation on oil prices. The issue was high on the political agenda at the time, as oil prices hit $147/bbl, and...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Russian Government Set to Renege on ExxonMobil Deal. Big Surprise
- Craig Pirrong submits: In the early-1990s Exxon XOM entered into a deal with the Russian government to develop the Sakhalin I project. As part of the deal, Exxon received an exemption from Gazprom’s legal monopoly on exports of gas from Russia. Now, in a shocking development (irony...
- External links 2009-08-02
- Russia's Restrictions on Exxon Mobil: It All Fits Together
- Craig Pirrong submits: A few days back I wrote that ExxonMobil XOM was facing the prospect of losing its right to export gas from its Sakhalin I project to China, and sell it instead in the Russian domestic market at below market prices. Yesterday Bloomberg carried another article...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Congressional Commodity Market Manipulation Rule Is a Monument to Cluelessness
- Craig Pirrong submits: The Federal Trade Commission issued its final rule on market manipulation, as authorized by Congress under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: The final Rule prohibits any person, directly or indirectly, in connection with the purchase or sale of crude oil, gasoline,...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Putin's Junior Partner Speaks Out on Russian Business
- Craig Pirrong submits: Dmitri Medvedev continues his split personality performance, sounding liberal on economic matters, but a chest-thumping Russian nationalist on foreign policy, especially on matters related to the near abroad. The tragedy is that his economic pronouncements have virtually no possibility of being implemented, but that his...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Russia: No Money, No Problem?
- Craig Pirrong submits: I asked a Russian friend how the financial and economic crisis had affected the regional art center in the Urals where she works. She said that she and her colleagues were coping with typical Russian resignation, and had made “??? ?????, ??? ???????” (”No money,...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Heard the One About the Baker Institute and Oil Speculators?
- Craig Pirrong submits: In an apparent attempt to make Michael Masters look good, Rice University’s Baker Institute has released a report on oil speculation, that concludes that increasing volumes of speculation have caused oil prices to be higher than they would otherwise be, and in a novel twist, have...
- External links 2009-08-30
- Gazprom's Recent Deals Should Be a Red Flag to the Rest of Europe
- Craig Pirrong submits: In potentially ominous news, Gazprom has entered an agreement with Azeri national energy company SOCAR to purchase Azeri gas at a price of $350/thousand cubic meters. Initial volumes of 500 mcm for 2010 are modest, but Gazprom is allegedly to be a preferential buyer (whatever...
- External links 2009-07-02
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- Trading Energy on Old Assumptions is 'Like Playing Russian Roulette with an Automatic,' Says Craig Pirrong in World Energy Monthly Review
- HOUSTON -- "Energy trading is now poised to become an integral part of broader financial markets," writes Dr. Craig Pirrong, energy markets director of the Global Energy Management Institute and professor at the University of Houston, in the January issue of World Energy Monthly Review. This assertion is evidenced by...
- Research articles 2006-01-17
- How Are Gazprom in Russia and the Energy Review in the UK Stirring up the Energy Market? World Energy Monthly Review Features European Warnings
- HOUSTON -- World Energy Monthly Review, July issue, feature editorials herald warnings and considerations to European nations on energy strategies. In his feature editorial, Craig Pirrong, whose extensive research includes the economics of commodity markets, counsels that "Europe would well be advised to evaluate Gazprom's moves with intense skepticism..." further...
- Research articles 2006-07-17
- Commodities and Speculators: Argument for Position Limits Non-Existent
- Hard Assets Investor submits: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn't expected to deliver its final verdict on new position limits and other market restrictions until later this month, but already we've seen plenty of reaction, including DXO's liquidation and the development of new indices. Expect it to continue,...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Regulatory Reform: No Case for Mandated Clearing
- Craig Pirrong submits: New York University Stern School of Business professors Aarya, Engle, Figlewski, Lynch, and Subrhmanyam (AEFLS) contributed a chapter advocating centralized clearing of credit derivatives in the recent volume Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System edited by Acharya and Richardson. Although the authors are...
- External links 2009-10-26
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