Crude Oil Auctions

  • 13 Nov 2018
  • By CME Group

Watch this video to see a demonstration of CME's Crude Oil Auctions–a marketplace for the sale of physical crude oil in the United States.

  • Auction parameters
  • Auction rules
  • Live auction demonstration showing the bidding process

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