# Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz on the vulnerabilities in Platts's price-reporting methods

1 Faculty News May 17, 2013 ![CNNMoney logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030743.jpg?itok=5lrpsukl)>

Excerpt from [CNNMoney](http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/17/news/economy/oil-price-libor/index.html) -- "'If you put in a price that is a bit off, you can affect the benchmark in a meaningful way, particularly because there just aren't that many transactions at the end of the day,' [she](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy) said. 'You may try and move Platts in a particular way and lose in that transaction, but then gain, by moving the index, in a larger transaction on the opposite side or on your derivatives position.'"

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