Money For the Rest of Us Why Negative Prices Exist and What They Can Teach Us
Apr 29, 2020
25:31
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.
Thanks to LinkedIn Learning and The Investor's Podcast for sponsoring the episode.
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