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Re:Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync by cpwright on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:02PM (#22620668)
If you buy a futures contract, you are required to accept delivery of some fixed amount. You don't have to take "all the oil party B produces", just what you agreed to ahead of time. This protects you from upward price trends, and the producer from downward price trends.
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Re:Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync by gpm on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:37PM (#22620979)
Sure, but if the cost of short term futures contracts is negative or zero the oil companies would just buy them back instead of continuing to produce. When we say the cost of oil, we really mean the cost of short term oil futures.
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