Malcolm Moore
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And what that steepness tells you is, give me oil now.
And that's telling you, I don't know whether I'm going to need oil in two months.
Three months, I'm less willing to pay for oil in three months.
That's what the steepness tailing away tells you.
And it's a big problem because politicians and all sorts of people are looking at the futures curve and saying, we don't need to worry.
You know, the price in a few months time is $80 a barrel, $90 a barrel.
That was a normal price for oil not so long ago.
OK, they're misunderstanding what that curve actually means.
It's, you know, because there is nothing else that tells you what the future is going to look like.
Companies build it into their forecasts.