The commodity market for crude oil may have been the one of the two most exciting financial markets around the world during 2014’s first 11 months. Crude’s price per barrel rose to a high of $107.95 June 20, according to Federal Reserve Economic Data , or FRED. And oil’s price per barrel fell to a low of $66.15 Friday, based on its January 2015 futures settlement price at the CME Group . This breathtaking plunge of -$41.80, or -38.72 percent, has had and will have major — and wildly uneven — implications for crude-oil consumers and producers globally. Accordingly, both the winners and the losers in the new petroleum pricing game have stakes in attempting to contextualize where the commodity’s market has been, is and will be. For example, airlines in the Asia-Pacific region generally have not yet […]