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Aus einer Reuters Meldung:

The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission announced on July 18 that it was reclassifying some trading positions that it had reported as commercial hedging positions as noncommercial speculative positions.

The data revision converted approximately 327,000 long and 330,000 short NYMEX crude oil futures and options positions into mostly spreading positions held by speculators.

The big shift is all the more surprising, oil traders and analysts said, since the CFTC apparently reclassified only one unidentified oil trader at the same time as the data revision.

"There may have been multiple 'positions' which were reclassified ... but they all appear to have been held by just one trader, and this was a very special trader, with an enormous concentration of positions in crude oil amounting to perhaps 460 million barrels, and not much interest in anything else," noted John Kemp of RBS Sempra Commodities.

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53 Milliarden Dollar. So viel Geld hat ein einziger Trader, der gerade von der US Behörde zur Regulierung von Oil Future Verträgen neu eingestuft wurde, in Öl investiert, hätte er pro Barrel den Tagespreis von 116 USD ausgegeben. Na gut, bezahlt hat er wahrscheinlich nicht so viel, trotzdem ist die Menge bemerkenswert. 460 Millionen Barrel sind laut Wikipedia nämlich ungefähr das zwanzigfache des Tagesverbrauchs an Öl in den Vereinigten Staaten. Und diese gigantische Menge in der Hand einer einzigen Person soll keine Auswirkung auf den Ölpreis haben?

Wer ist das?

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