Energy shock delivers 144% boost in profits for BP

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To be sure, bonds are still very tuned-in to oil price movement with a high level of moment-to-moment correlation. That dynamic has seen yields trade both higher and lower so far today with most of the “lower” happening between 8:20 and 9:10am. Since then, both yields and oil are back on the rise. But the…

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