More to Crude Oil Than Just Brent & West Texas Intermediate
February 19, 2015 at 17:19 PM EST
If there’s one thing that has captured the market’s fascination recently, it has to be the dramatic rise and fall of crude oil. Since bottoming out during the Great Recession, prices for oil have risen substantially—thanks to the fracking and deepwater drilling boom—only to crater once again. That’s made for plenty of headlines and media coverage.