{"id":25527,"date":"2011-04-08T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_crude_at_175_oil_traders_stress_test_the_future\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:37:17","slug":"ft_crude_at_175_oil_traders_stress_test_the_future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25527","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Crude at $175? Oil traders stress test the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil at $175 a barrel; copper at $12,000 a tonne and corn at $10 a bushel. As commodity prices rally, the world\u2019s largest trading houses have been busy \u201d\u02dcstress testing\u2019 to be sure their finances can withstand a \u201csuper spike\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The levels are not a forecast \u201d\u201c indeed, executives tell me they do not expect such hefty prices \u201d\u201c but do signal a \u201cworse case scenario\u201d\u009d for which oil, metals and food commodities traders need to prepare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/47ddd6e4-60eb-11e0-8899-00144feab49a.html#axzz1IrUix0Eb\">I sincerely hope not&#8211;read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil at $175 a barrel; copper at $12,000 a tonne and corn at $10 a bushel. As commodity prices rally, the world\u2019s largest trading houses have been busy \u201d\u02dcstress testing\u2019 to be sure their finances can withstand a \u201csuper spike\u201d\u009d.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25527\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,202,149,140,531,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-libya","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}