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Old 06-16-2008, 09:49 AM   #115
Loren Schweizer
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Originally Posted by Codger
The infinite possibilities for mis-understanding a tanker captain somewhere in Indonesia on a useless sat phone. He's been re-directed twice in the last 72 hours as to where he's going to unload. Guess the spot pricing right now is all over the map.
Working a trading desk on the oil spot market right now is a younger man's game.

You sound like a knowledgeable oil guy. With future oil currently higher than spot, i.e., in contango, and the reverse of which is backwardation, who/how/why did those odd-sounding terms come to be anyway?
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