Victor Shum Immediate Quotations

The potential supply disruption risk premium has already been built into the price and because there really is no immediate threat to supply ... prices are correcting downwards.

Natural gas pricing is an immediate telltale sign of the winter situation: it is fairly mild, and this is likely to impact heating oil and crude demand as well.

The current Iranian developments, though they will not cause any immediate disruption to oil supply, have caused some anxiety on the part of traders.