1. Most popular grades of oil quality are West Texas Intermediary (WTI) & Brent North Sea Crude (Brent)
2. Brent is a blend from of 15 oil fields in the North Sea. It's 2/3rds of world production. Benchmark for Africa, Europe + Middle East
4. You can buy a contract for oil in the future. Think of UberEats, you want Nandos next Thurs night. You pay now & it gets delivered next week. This is called a futures contract
6. New York WTI futures contracts expired at -$37 today. Yes, negative. Wait, hold up. How is the oil price negative?! Read on
8. Hey let me take some!! No, that excludes the freight & shipping costs. Also your house is small.
10. Is cutting supply enough? No, it's demand driven thanks largely to the Rona
12. Will the petrol price come down? Yes but our ZAR is weak and there's a ton of taxes + levies AND we're less exposed to WTI.
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