By Chris Cook, former compliance and market supervision director of the International Petroleum Exchange All is not as it appears in the global oil markets, which in my view have become entirely dysfunctional and no longer fit for its purpose. I believe that the market price is about to collapse as it did in 2008 and that this will mark the end of an era in which the market has been run by and ...

Editor‘s Note: Frontera NorteSur is generally loathe to join the annual media ritual of regurgitating the year’s stories and classifying them in order of importance. The editor will make no such arbitrary judgments, but by any measure 2011 was an extraordinary year and some reflection seems called for at this time. So in the spirit [...]