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The general term Price of Oil usually referees to the next month yet-unexpired futures contract for the Light Sweet Crude (West Texas Intermediate) oil. Thus, the equilibrium for such defined Oil Price is established by investor's expectation about supply and demand conditions for the yet-unexpired-next-month future contract. Such expectations about supply-demand conditions for the future contracts are driven both by expectations about fundamental supply-demand conditions of the real physical crude oil markets, as well as speculative so-called momentum plays.

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