{"id":645198,"date":"2025-09-06T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645198"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:50:27","slug":"opec-output-signals-spur-options-bets-oil-will-lurch-below-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opec-output-signals-spur-options-bets-oil-will-lurch-below-60\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC Output Signals Spur Options Bets Oil Will Lurch Below $60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; A flurry of bets on Brent crude falling below $60 a barrel this year changed hands in recent days, a sign investors are hedging against the risk of another large production hike from OPEC and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s trading saw a spike in activity in December $55 and $60 puts, with the combined open interest in both options ballooning to the equivalent of 120 million barrels of crude. Trading volume for the $55 puts was the highest since early April, when OPEC shocked markets with a supply increase three times bigger than originally scheduled. Brent crude is currently trading near $65 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; A flurry of bets on Brent crude falling below $60 a barrel this year changed hands in recent days, a sign investors are hedging against the risk of another large production hike from OPEC and its allies. Thursday\u2019s trading saw a spike in activity in December $55 and $60 puts, with the combined open interest in both options ballooning to the equivalent of 120 million barrels of crude. Trading volume for the $55 puts was the highest since early April, when OPEC shocked markets with a supply increase three times bigger than originally scheduled. Brent crude is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}