Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreAn interesting chart from the American Enterprise Institute showing to what degree oil shipments by rail have risen in the last two years:
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 11:04 |
6,705 | -135.20 | -2.0% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 23 2013 10:50 |
1,230 | -26.46 | -2.1% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 22 2013 05:00 |
1,655 | -13.81 | -0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 23 2013 05:29 |
1.29 | 0.00 | +0.2% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 23 2013 11:05 |
101.50 | -1.10 | -1.1% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 23 2013 08:29 |
1,381 | +13.00 | +1.0% | 1,795 |
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