Furthermore, secured claims and administrative expense claims are paid ahead of unsecured claims. To make matters a bit more Â­confusing, Section 364(c)(1) provides that certain Â­super-priority claims are to be paid even Â­before administrative expense claims.
The market price of a commodity that is quoted in the news is often the market futures price for that respective commodity. As with equity securities, a commodities futures price is determined primarily by the supply and demand for the commodity in the market. For example, let's look at oil. If the supply of oil increases, the price of one barrel of oil will decrease.
The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oilâa reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent ICE, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis Crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus and Western Canadian Select (WCS).