Mumbai, March 24 -- Energy speculators continued to raise their net long positions in the crude oil futures market, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The non-commercial futures contracts of Crude oil futures, traded by large speculators, hedge funds and retailers, totaled a net long position of 166823 contracts in the data reported through March 18, 2025. This was a weekly gain of 2697 net contracts and pushed up net longs further from four month low.
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