Money For the Rest of Us

Why Negative Prices Exist and What They Can Teach Us


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Why the oil price fell below zero and what are other examples of negative prices. What lessons can we learn from negative prices.

Topics covered include:

  • How oil futures work and why the oil future prices fell below zero for the first time ever.
  • Why has the United States Oil ETF (USO) lost so much money.
  • How ETF authorized participants create new shares only so they can be shorted.
  • How storage problems for oil and electricity can lead to negative prices.
  • How negative interest rates are another form of negative prices.
  • Why sellers will pay buyers to deliver a service to them.
  • What financial lessons can we learn from negative prices.


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