Oil futures drunk-trading incident
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oil-futures-drunk-trading-incident-183-2992501
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Oil futures drunk-trading incident
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The oil futures drunk-trading incident was an incident in which Steven Perkins, an employee of London-based PVM Oil Futures, traded 7 million barrels of oil, worth approximately US$520 million in a two-and-half-hour period in the early morning of 30 June 2009 while drunk. These unauthorised trades caused the price of Brent Crude oil to rise by over $1.50 a barrel within a short period of time, a trend generally associated with major geopolitical events, before dropping rapidly. As a result of th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_futures_drunk-trading_incident
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2011-08-26T13:27:37Z
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2024-09-06T16:04:19Z
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