Hedge Funds Lift Livestock Longs To Record High – But Coffee ‘Vulnerable to Short-Covering’

(Agrimoney) Hedge funds curtailed their negative position on agricultural commodity prices, as bets on rising livestock values more than outweighed selling in grains – and coffee, now deemed “significantly vulnerable to short covering” Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from cattle to wheat, by 22,049 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.

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