Morgan Stanley: Oil Traders Are ‘More Precise’ With Risk as Wars Drag On

Uncertainty about how the wars in Iran and Ukraine will unfold is keeping many traders away from taking positions in longer-dated futures contracts, according to investment bank Morgan Stanley. Most traders have now moved to bet on futures prices within a three to six-month period, instead of longer-dated futures contracts, as volatility has spiked and uncertainty has grown regarding where the wars are going and how much they would continue to impact the global oil market. “People have been more precise with their risk,” Brendan Ross,...