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CME Raises Margins On Crude Oil, Heating Oil And Gasoline By More Than 10% Each

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2011 11:16 -0500

The CME Group Inc. increased margins its New York Mercantile Exchange crude oil and petroleum products futures, effective after the close of trading today. The margin for Nymex crude oil will rise to $6,750 per contract from $6,075, while heating oil margins increase to $6,413 from $5,063 and gasoline to $6,750 from $5,400, the exchange said in a notice late yesterday. The attempts to prevent an out of control melt up in the one product everyone is terrified of, crude, are back on the table. Just like last week, when the ICE started and the CME followed suit, look for today's CME action to be promptly immitated by the ICE on Brent. 

 

 

 

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Riyadh Storm Rising

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2011 09:54 -0500

Saudi Arabia stirring. Time for another paradrop of billions in linen to appease the increasingly restless natives. Oh wait, no mas dinero? Oops. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk Off: Commodity Complex Jumps On Reports Libyan Oil Wells Near Benghazi On Fire

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2011 09:46 -0500

In a not so surprising turn of events, adverse Libyan newsflow has picked up just as expected, with Reuters reporting that the Oil facility at Zueitina, south of Benghazi, is now damaged and oil wells are now on fire, and that a Libyan rebel convoy is now headed to Ras Lanuf according to Al Jazeera even as fighting in Tripoli picks up, although as we noted previously don't expect any coverage as all the journalists there are now rounded up "for their safety from Al Qaeda" and the terrorist organizations crazy pills. The result: WTI now passing $103, wiping out more tens of billions from the US GDP, further destroying corporate margins, and otherwise adding fuel to today's vapormeltup. Gold and silver follow suit.