Hedge funds boosted their position in petroleum last week to pre-pandemic levels, encouraged by signs of a rapidly recovering global economy and continued output restraint among US shale producers.

They purchased the equivalent of 52-million barrels in the six most important petroleum futures and options contracts in the week to June 8...

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