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Options market bets by oil investors helped explain Monday's sharp fall in US crude prices. Traders were positioning for further declines as crude fell in tandem with stocks and industrial commodities.
Bearish options positioning signals continued downside risk for crude, which can pressure energy-linked feed costs in the near term.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.