SVOL: Some Uncertainty On The Horizon

I recommend selling SVOL due to heightened geopolitical risk and unfavorable VIX curve dynamics impairing its short ...
MarketWatch

BofA Sees Crude Futures Flipping to Contango in Summer as Inventory Builds -- OPIS

Crude oil's futures curve will likely switch to contango this summer from the current backwardation as global inventory is expected to build which would ease supply tightness, Bank of America energy ...
MarketWatch

Here’s what may cause the oil market to shift to contango from backwardation

Oil prices finished lower on Wednesday as uncertainty continued to surround President Donald Trump’s policy moves in the energy sector. Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra suggests the “potential for ...
Reuters

Commodities contango, a licence to print money-John Kemp

LONDON (Reuters) - The current contango structure in crude oil futures and most other commodity markets -- with future prices significantly above the spot market -- is providing a strong incentive to ...
Reuters

Analysis - For oil, contango has become the norm

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - High inventories are likely to keep oil markets mostly in contango throughout 2011, extending into a third year a structure once considered unusual but now seen as ...