HEDGE FUND NEWS

Los Angeles Times - Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses.
But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact more of a speculator, holding oil […]

MarketWatch - For the first time in 17 months, hedge funds in July made more bets on oil prices falling than rising, according to the latest government data.

 
Short positions from noncommercial investors, hedge funds and other large investors that don’t actually take delivery of oil, surpassed long positions in July for the first month since […]

Bloomberg- Hedge-fund managers and speculators reduced bets on higher oil prices by 80 percent since July as crude futures rose to records and U.S. regulators started investigating trading, government data show.
So-called speculative net long positions fell to 25,867 contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange in the week ended May 27 from a record 127,491 […]