Liam Denning, Columnist

The Oil Market Is a Tale of Two Bonds

How successful Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are at raising money will be telling.

October 11, 2016 at 3:34 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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Saudi Arabia and Venezuela would like to sell you some bonds. How well they do at this will tell you everything you need to know about today's oil market.

Saudi Arabia will kick off a roadshow on Wednesday to issue perhaps $10 billion or more of sovereign bonds with maturities ranging up to 30 years.