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Brent crude poised to surpass WTI as most-traded commodity

GasBuddy Blog -- Bloomberg News is reporting that for the first year since the commodity futures were created, Brent crude is poised to overtake West Texas Intermediate oil as the world’s most-traded commodity.

Daily trading in Brent jumped 14 percent to average 567,000 contracts in the year to Nov. 20 compared with all of 2011, while WTI fell 17 percent to 575,000, according to data from the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London and New York Mercantile Exchange compiled by Bloomberg. The number of Brent futures changing hands has exceeded those for WTI every month from April through October, the longest streak since at least 1995.

And yet, U.S. media focuses primarily on WTI crude.

Brent, produced in the North Sea, is gaining...

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Submitted Nov 27, 2012 By: PD

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