Author Archives: Parveen Yadav
Micro Grids – Overcoming the Economies of Scale
In business, economy of scale is an important concept of optimizing output while reducing cost per unit of output by increasing the size of production. For example, a larger entity…
NYISO Market Participants’ Data Need
This is the Part Two of Three in our series on the NYISO market. In the Part One, titled ‘The Need for Enterprise Data Management in the NYISO’, Ian gave…
Debt Ceiling Threat to Risk Free Rate: Is It Real?
The debt ceiling crisis has an inconspicuous victim, the bond market. The simple logic is that a Treasury default on its bonds will cause the bond investors to panic, causing…
Canada’s Slick Find: The Return to Crude Oil Discovery
Source: ZE Most oil companies have a dedicated team exploring new sources of energy, be it offshore crude, natural gas or any unconventional source. But, the inundating supply of crude…
Technical Glitches: Risk & Data Management Woes
Source: ZE Technical glitches on trading exchanges have become a reality for the contemporary financial world. “As we continue to eliminate human beings from the execution of security trading, this…
Traders: Simplify the Forward Curve Blending Process
Source: ZE A common challenge experienced by many market participants is the effort it takes to manage different contract lengths for the same commodity when building forward curves. Forward curves,…
Loopholes And Dilemmas In The U.S. Electricity Market
Source: ZE If you pay for your electricity, why should you also have to pay for the cost of running the power plant that generates it? This may be the…
Bitcoin – World’s First Virtual Currency Value Continues to Fall
The world’s first virtual currency Bitcoin has had its ups and downs while trying to find its place amongst mainstream exchange-traded financial instruments. Although the Bitcoin market has always been…
Fed To Scale Back on Bonds: Aftermath and Effects
Financial markets went into a tizzy over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s statement at the rate-setting panel press conference on June 19, 2013, “If the incoming data support the view…
Is The LNG Market Moving Towards Consolidation?
Back in the nineties Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) was typically the confine of regional, illiquid markets. During that period, LNG was traded between eight exporting countries and eight importing countries,…