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Bond investors lose £105.1bn in oil price fall

Laura Dew

22 March 2016 • 1 min read

The fall in commodities has meant the value of oil and gas company bonds has fallen by more than $150bn (£105.1bn) since June 2014.

According to analysis by the Financial Times, more than $150bn has been lost from 1,278 actively traded bonds which are denominated in dollar, sterling and yen. The price of crude oil per barrel...

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