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Oil market traders bracing for prolonged disruption

Extreme volatility in front-month oil prices has captured the headlines, but there have also been large moves in the shape of the oil futures curve and in the options market. As it stands, investors in the options market put a one-in-five chance of Brent crude prices being $100pb or higher in three months’ time.

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