Commodity market may include interest rates, environmental instruments, swaps, or freight contracts. Source: International Trade Centre Energy commodities include crude oil particularly West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and Brent crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, ethanol and purified terephthalic acid. Hedging is a common practice for these commodities. For many years, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, a light, sweet crude oil, was the world’s most-traded commodity. WTI is a grade used as a benchmark in oil pricing. It is the underlying commodity of Chicago Mercantile Exchange's oil futures contracts. WTI is often referenced in news reports on oil prices, alongside
Texas State Technical College was ranked #1 in Texas and #11 in the nation among two-year colleges according to the 2007 college ranking conducted by Washington Monthly. In response to the growing need for technical training involving wind power (Texas is the number one wind-energy generating state in the United States, primarily centered in windy West Texas), in 2007, TSTC Sweetwater created the first community college wind energy program in Texas, and constructed a demonstration 2 MW 60 Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype wind turbine for student training. Texas State Technical College has partnered with Pinnacle Career Institute in Kansas City to offer the wind