| Prescient hedge or foolish waste of money? Recent history has been on Mexico’s side on that one. As a significant oil producer, Mexico’s oil price hedging program has been the worst kept secret in the market recently, although it has been going on for a dozen years according to Reuters.
When it started, disclosure requirements were more lax and the volumes were lower making it easier to keep it under wraps, but the Dodd-Frank Act and success of the program has resulted in larger volumes that just can’t be kept under wraps. The 2015 hedge netted Mexico a record windfall of more than $6 billion last year as oil prices continued a three-year slide...............................................Full Article: Source
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