A recent drop in natural gas prices, coupled with the impending inaugural shipment of liquefied natural gas out of the US by Cheniere Energy Partners, is reviving hopes from market participants that a liquid financial derivatives market attached to global LNG prices will finally develop. The lack of a derivatives market is seen as a major impediment to the growth of LNG, since producers and distributors are unable to hedge the risk of wild price swings across jurisdictions - especially in Asia, where price markers vary widely from the US and Europe.
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机译：近期天然气价格下跌，再加上Cheniere Energy Partners即将向美国出口液化天然气，这使市场参与者重新燃起了希望，即全球LNG价格附属的流动性金融衍生品市场将重新燃起希望。缺乏衍生品市场被认为是液化天然气增长的主要障碍，因为生产商和分销商无法对冲不同辖区的价格剧烈波动的风险，特别是在亚洲，那里的价格指标与美国和欧洲相差很大。
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