the Moscow exchange on Tuesday to stop trading the WTI futures with expiry on 21 April after a record collapse in prices. The decision was taken to prevent the occurrence of additional adverse effects from trading participants and their clients. Information about this appeared on the website of the holding company.
“during the clearing session on Tuesday will be a performance of the estimated future contract for oil WTI with the execution in April in accordance with the contract specifications and the trading rules and clearing. The rest of the series of futures contracts and options on oil grades Light Sweet Crude Oil and Brent will continue unchanged”, – with reference to Mossberg TASS.
the Price of WTI crude oil on Monday at 23:36 Moscow time for the first time in U.S. history fell on the new York Mercantile exchange into negative numbers. The price of energy supply in may fell by 35,97 USD to minus 17.7 per dollar. WTI crude oil produced in Texas and used primarily for the production of gasoline. As of 03.07 Moscow time the price of may futures for WTI rose in price on the new York Mercantile exchange (NYMEX) 160%, to 2.21 per barrel.
