Sentences with phrase «net long positions for»

Not exact matches

Hedge funds and money managers raised their net long position in COMEX gold for the second straight week in the week to March 28, and boosted it slightly in silver, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Friday.

He based his forecast on seasonal changes in buying and selling patterns and the fact that large speculators» net long position is now at 445,000 futures contracts, which suggests there is not much space for more buying before the seasonal selling starts.

While this is certainly not bullish for sentiment, this is a relatively and historically light Net Fund Long Position, and gross shorts at 89k contracts are still somewhat elevated.

Hamm, whose net worth was previously estimated to be $ 13.8 billion, has served as Donald Trump's energy advisor and has long been considered a front runner for the position of Energy Secretary.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for years.

Silver's net - long position for managed - money accounts fell to 18, 369 contracts, with the drop coming from the cutting of 1,468 gross longs and adding 137 gross shorts.

This was such an unusual and unexpected development that we felt we had to mention it in these pages (note: as of last week the speculative position has returned to net long 6,186 contracts, which is still very subdued exposure for this group of traders).

For the past few months the net speculative long position in euro futures has hovered near an all - time high.

More recently, the relatively small size of the speculative net - long position in early - July of this year paved the way for a tradable rebound in the price, but by early - September the speculative net - long position had again risen to a relatively high level.

For the dealer that hedges the net long position with short futures contracts, everything will be a wash.

AIG reported a third quarter net loss, but the company president said that AIG is moving toward streamlining its operations and positioning itself for long - term competitiveness.

Net exposure takes into account the benefits of offsetting long and short positions and is calculated by subtracting the percentage of the Fund's equity capital invested in short sales from the percentage of its equity capital used for long positions.

Not only did the German end that long barren spell by setting up Theo Walcott for the Gunners» second of the night in our Champions League game with Ludogorets, he also netted the first hat - trick of his professional career to give Arsenal a fantastic 6 - 0 win over the Bulgarian champions and put us in a great position to win a UCL group for the first time in years.

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

See § 356.13 of the UOC for more information on how to report the net long position.

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