The oil by which all other oils are judged. Literally. With more than 200 forms of crude oil, traders and other buyers / sellers need a reference point.
Randolph found a barrel of oil and Mortimer wants to buy it. To establish a fair price, they agree to use Brent Sea Crude as their benchmark crude oil. At the end of the day, they check the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and see that Brent Crude closed at $74.82 per barrel, which Mortimer then pays Randolph in exchange for the found barrel.
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Finance: What are petro dollars?8 Views
Finance allah shmoop what are petro dollars Well they're just
money received from the mining of this guy's blood and
guts because yeah oil that's where it comes from yesterday's
stegosaurus is today's refined petroleum and we're talking about a
massive amount of dollars here like you could call them
master dollars or t rex a dollars or try sarah
dollars big wealth in the nineteen seventies came from the
petro era in the same way that it's led today
by amazon facebook and google When oil prices suddenly spiked
in the seventies the people who won well they were
the ones who had massive oceans of it underground We're
looking atyou saudi arabia and you texas and in times
when there is so much money coming into a system
with a shock well the economic driver of that wealth
becomes a kind of currency itself In fact china's made
all kinds of noise about making their currency now and
oil standard upgrading from the old gold silver and bronze
medal of shame standard that western civilization well he used
to hold so dear petro dollars petro wealth were still
feeling it and weigh no that that makes this guy
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