{"id":6838,"date":"2016-08-15T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2016-08-21T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T17:47:14","slug":"mexico-said-to-begin-quietly-hedging-2017-oil-price-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/mexico-said-to-begin-quietly-hedging-2017-oil-price-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Said to Begin Quietly Hedging 2017 Oil Price in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico started quietly buying contracts to lock in 2017 oil prices when futures were near their peak\u00a0in June, signaling the start of what has in prior years been the world\u2019s largest sovereign petroleum hedge, according to people familiar with the deal.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Latin American country bought put options, which give it the right to sell crude at a predetermined price, in June and July, earlier than the usual period of late August to late September, said the people,\u00a0who asked not to be identified because the process is private.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Brent crude, the global benchmark, peaked at nearly $53 a barrel in early June. Since then, prices have declined about $10 a barrel as the outlook for the global economy soured and OPEC countries boosted production. The people didn\u2019t say how much Mexico was able to hedge before prices fell back.<\/span><\/h3>\n

In response to a list of e-mailed questions, the Mexican Finance Ministry\u2019s press office declined to comment on the status or progress of Mexico\u2019s oil hedge negotiations.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Latin American country has spent an average of almost $1 billion a year over the past decade buying put options through deals with banks that in the past have included Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co.,\u00a0Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas SA, Barclays Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc, according to government documents. Mexico\u2019s annual hedge is the largest undertaken by a national government and often roils the market.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Mexico and its bankers try to keep the hedge under wraps as long as possible, to avoid others front-running the trade and making the insurance more expensive. In the past two years, however, some details of the hedge emerged because of new regulations introduced in the U.S. with the Dodd-Frank Act.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dodd-Frank<\/span><\/h3>\n

The rules forced U.S. banks to report some details of the deal through public swap data repositories. But this year not a single deal bearing the marks of the Mexican hedge has emerged, and two of the people familiar with the program said Mexico and its bankers were using non-U.S. branches of the banks to bypass the reporting rules.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The move to hedge 2017 oil prices comes as Mexico stands to take in about $3 billion from this year\u2019s hedge, which was put on from June to August 2015, if prices remain around current levels.\u00a0That follows last year\u2019s record payout of $6.4 billion.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Despite Mexico\u2019s hedging success — it received $5 billion in 2009 after oil prices plunged — few other commodity-rich countries have followed suit. Ecuador hedged oil sales in 1993, but losses triggered a political storm and the nation never tried again. More recently, oil importers Morocco, Jamaica and Uruguay have bought protection against rising energy prices.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Mexico started quietly buying contracts to lock in 2017 oil prices when futures were near their peak\u00a0in June, signaling the start of what has in prior years been the world\u2019s largest sovereign petroleum hedge, according to people familiar with the deal. The Latin American country bought put options, which give it the right to sell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017],"tags":[426,199,302,455,1012],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barrel","tag-mexico","tag-oil-prices","tag-petroleum","tag-price-per-barrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}