Despite soaring rig counts, surging US shale production, and increasing doubts over OPEC/NOPEC cuts being sustained (albeit with Saudi jawboning), oil speculators have decided to add to their long positions in the last week, pushing the net position in futures to a new record high - above the 2014 peak from which crude collapsed.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-22/oil-speculators-have-never-been-long

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