Monday Macro View: Top 5 Reasons Crude Prices Are Ascending – and the recent Middle East tension is only one of them!
By Osama Rizvi and Avik Chowdhury Over the past month, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has surged by nearly 15%,...
Osama Rizvi is an international energy and economic analyst whose areas of interests include global economy, commodity and financial markets and climate change where he specifically focuses on Oil prices, commodity analysis, interest rates, food prices and global economy. Critically, Osama focuses on energy transitions and the North-South
relations and asymmetry in carbon emissions.
He also researches and writes about a multitude of other topics such as social issues, policy recommendations, mental models, mind mapping, consultancy service, etcetera.
He has Masters in Global Political Economy from the University of London where he went after winning the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship.
Osama has written for various global publications and outlets such as: The Diplomat Magazine, The National Interest, Oil Price, Market Insider, Data Science Central and is a regular panelist at TRT World, Bloomberg with Asharq and Pakistan National TV and AAJ TV network. He is also a regular panelist at Gulf Intelligence podcast and contributor for one of the largest websites that cover sustainability related topics, Illuminem. He also had the pleasure to be featured in one of the largest and most prestigious publications in the world and the UK, The Telegraph.
Besides this he has managed to be featured in Capital.com, Yahoo Finance and many other digital and print media outlets multiple times. His various videos on Youtube has gathered hundreds and thousands of views. Lastly, he is the South Asia Chair for Society for Low Carbon Technologies - a US based non-profit.
He is an energy and economic analyst at Primary Vision Network.
By Osama Rizvi and Avik Chowdhury Over the past month, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has surged by nearly 15%,...
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