Oil and gold
Much is spoken lately of raw materials and especially 2 with large speculative component, we mean the gold and oil. Go into detail on each of them.
In the world of jewelry there are various types of gold, depending on the components used different shades manage, mixes used are as follows:
- Yellow gold. Alloy that is, for every 1,000 grams of the same, 750 grams of fine gold, 125 g of fine silver and 125 grams of copper.
- Red gold. Here the proportions are 750 g of fine gold and 250 grams of copper.
- Gold rose. The content of 1000 g presents 750 g of fine gold 50 g of silver and 200 grams of fine copper.
- Palladium or white gold. For every 1,000 grams of white gold or palladium there are 750 grams of fine gold and 100 to 160 g of palladium. The rest is fine silver.
- White gold. In 1000 g of gold gray there are 750 grams of fine gold and about 150 grams of nickel. The rest is copper.
- Green gold. Contains 750 grams of fine gold and 250 grams of silver per 1000 grams of alloy.
In turn, the black gold also has different varieties with different mixtures (lightness and sweetness) that you can see in more detail here and you summarize the below:
- Brent: It's the oil reference in the European market, but it is also true for 65% of the various types of global crude, which are referenced in the prices of which are expressed as a premium or a discount against Brent. The Brent due to its name from an oil field in the North Sea discovered in 1972 by Shell, and that after 1,300 million pounds of investment began pumping crude in December 1976. The Brent oil is of high quality, because it is , In the jargon oil, light and sweet (low sulfur content). Each contract for Brent, called batch, is composed of a thousand barrels of crude.
- Dated Brent: It's the contract of physical oil market, where exchanging real barrels of crude, unlike the financial transactions of the Internaitonal Petroleum Exchange, where the futures contract is traded in Brent. As the production of Brent years ago which reached its peak and is now in decline, the contract Dated Brent refers to the prices today of a blend of crudes Brent, Oseberg and Fortier (all in the North Sea).
- West Texas Intermediate: It is the oil of reference for the U.S. market, and listed on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), in New York. This is a very high-quality crude, above that of Brent, is light and sweet (the sulfur content of only 0.24%). Therefore, it is often quoted from two to four dollars above the Brent. Its future contracts traded on the Nymex for 21 years and have the highest level of liquidity and recruitment of all global crude. At the expiration of the contract, it can require physical delivery or cash compensation. The delivery point is located in Cushing, a small town in Oklahoma (United States), where is a focal point for the U.S. network of pipelines. Although the actual production of crude this is only the 365,000 barrels (0.4% of global pumping), are exchanged daily on the Nymex around 150 million barrels (almost twice the global oil consumption). The market traded 24 hours a day Monday through Friday meeting in electronics, and between 1615 and 2030 (time peninsular Spanish), in rings parquet. Although the electronic market tends to mark the opening of the trend, the market really important is the parquet.
- Dubai: He is Crude reference to the heavy oil and sulfur in Asia, and are referenced on, through a premium or discount, other crudes from the area not listed on the market. The Dubai is a type of low-quality oil that is heavy and high in sulfur (2.04%, five times more than the Brent). In recent years its importance has grown along with imports of crude oil from emerging economies in Asia, especially China.
- Arab Light: For decades, Arab Light, produced at the legendary Ghawar oilfield in Saudi Arabia was the world reference for the price of oil. Between 1950 and 1981, the price of crude was set as a premium or discount against the Saudi variety, whose main export is Ras Tanura, the largest oil export terminal in the world. The Arab Light crude is a medium, but its production is huge: at present, more than five million barrels. Its reservoir, Ghawar, is the largest in the world, with estimated reserves of 70,000 million barrels. In years in which the Arab Light was the benchmark, OPEC members talked days to agree on the price of that oil.
- OPEC basket: OPEC sets its oil policy decisions with their eyes fixed on the so-called OPEC basket [OPEC basket], an average of seven varieties of crude: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Minas (Indonesia), Bonny Light (Nigeria) , Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Tia Juana Light (Venezuela) and Isthmus (Mexico). As the OPEC basket is composed of a majority of crude quality medium-low, is often quoted with a strong discount with respect to crude of high quality. Versus Brent, is often quoted around two barrels below and in front of the West Texas Intermediate, the discount ranges between four and five dollars.
I hope now is more or less clear who is the Brent and why it is cheaper than West Texas. In the background is logical, not all oils are equal and therefore must have different prices.
Frankly when I started the blog, do not ever think that the black gold was going to have so much prominence, but in December 2005 which was the month that I started to write (well, then I simply cut and paste) the cost of oil rather than half and that, even if it appears to lie and influences much on your mortgage.
Let's look at the day's news, some are very oil:
- The IEA believes that the world is moving towards the third great oil crisis.
- OPEC will not change the levels of crude production at its next meeting
- Is it possible to build cheaper housing in Spain?
- Three of every four savings banks have to go in search of the interbank liquidity
- The bank wants to get rid of the portfolios of loans linked to immigrants
- To end this joyita: Solbes called "irresponsible" to complain that errors in the drafts. So I regret my lack of having published the drafts of the statement is a mistake that allows the state to enter quite at the expense of taxpayers. More information about this error in Section 737
As such, you are not irresponsible.
Written by Carlos Lopez on June 12, 2008 with 276 points.
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# 1, Euribor up up!
Very good!
Before any comment, for which it has not been seen on TV this morning, this is the picture in government:
- A Solbes has already escaped that "... to settle this crisis we need to ..." and asked if he thinks it will soon resolve the strike and said "we will see"
- A Zapatero was not even heard the word "crisis" and said only "strong slowdown" and he asked if you think you will soon settle the strike and has said a "yes" overwhelming.
Question: Who do if? Solbes to me at the moment ...
On the other hand, I wonder if this is what I invented (and I am a liar and a pessimist) or is the REALITY (pure and hard ... but do not want to see) ...
Take that car sales have fallen by 30% according to official data ... (that when they say that's because they have fallen by 50% ... as we all know, because what we have done is to enroll them car dealers who then offer Km . 0)
Already we have ... and a quarter (and what we have ... because in 2008-2009 are going to sell a 50% less than the average over the last decade)
Employers in the automobile were already planning for the ERE and other paperwork to reduce their workforces in half ... but ... the problem was ... What I say to all employees that we ...? (cipotecados eye that many are up to the eyebrows ... and I also want this if it negáis)
Well, well ... come carriers and block supplies ... and TACHÁÁÁNN! Problem solved for employers in the automobile ... and have very good excuse to throw in half of its workforce "PUTA THE STREET."
And employees are cagará.n. on the carriers ... and no they will realize that they were already on the street before the strike.
Well ... if we look at how many people we talk to ... I guess that in total will go to the streets 50,000 people ... there will be cipotecados between these?
And we all know that in many of these companies THE TWO MEMBERS OF THE COUPLE / MARRIAGE working together ...
From here ... we can all draw the future that awaits them ... default and EMBARGO.
And with 5,000 housing units such ... put (sure I stay short! Only get a 10% cipotecados ... !!!?) what we do?
Well ... will join the million who are unsold ... and then there will be more supply of flats ... either to rent (lower prices) or for auction (fall in prices for someone who can afford them).
A final question ... THIS JUST I see it? or is it should LIVE IN A WORLD OF PARALLEL TO THE REST OF SPANISH?
And now I will continue my lies and inconsistencies ... and ponedme negative and the reality that certain changes.
Good morning.