DME plans oil swaps

11 March 2010

Ahmad Sharaf, Chairman of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) has revealed plans to introduce oil swaps and options against its benchmark sour-crude in the coming months, Bloomberg has reported. DME is awaiting approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) before introducing the derivatives, based on the DME's Oman crude contract, a Gulf benchmark for Asia, he said.

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