Traders Shorting Oil Amid Perceived End of Hormuz Crisis

Traders Are Shorting Oil As If The Hormuz Crisis Is Over

Traders Are Shorting Oil As If The Hormuz Crisis Is Over Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Oil traders are increasingly betting on lower prices, with short positions in Brent crude tripling since late March despite the loss of roughly 13 million bpd of supply from the Middle East. Physical market fundamentals are tightening rapidly, as global inventories have fallen by about 250 million barrels and key storage hubs like Cushing are approaching critically low le...

By Tyler Durden