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Oil speculators held great sway over prices, data suggest

August 21, 2008 : Permalink

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 […]

Hedge Funds Appear to Have Dodged a Bullet

August 20, 2008 : Permalink

Seeking Alpha – If you happen to be in need of Vaseline and find that your local pharmacy is sold out, never fear. Chances are, the entire stock has been purchased by your friendly neighbourhood hedge fund manager. If you […]

Hedge Funds Cut Oil Bets as Prices Rose, CFTC Probed

June 2, 2008 : Permalink

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 […]