The Possibility of Establishing Market for Future Oil Contracts in Arab Gulf countries

Abstract

Oil is one of the important strategic resources for producing countries in general and Arab gulf countries specifically, where they depend largely on oil revenues to finance their budgets and satisfying their needs of foreign money as well as the payment of the import bills therefore, all producingcountriesis affected by fluctuations in oil price especially when price drop, because price are affected by many economic variables, especially, supply and demand or political and security variables. In addition, the Arab gulf countries have about % 49.48 of the world reserves, but they do not have a market for pricing futures contracts. Therefore, this paper reviews the importance of this subject and the possibility of establishing a market for pricing futures contracts of oil in AGC couutries , due to the availability of most of the components of the establishment of this market.