A fresh wave of bullishness is washing through the oil-options market as traders protect against the risk to supplies in a region that pumps a third of the world’s oil from mounting attacks between ...

Investors are dialing up wagers on prices slumping below $60 in a hedge against a wider economic downturn. The oil options market was shaken out of a months-long stupor last week after OPEC+ ramped up ...

Implied volatilities jumped higher across asset classes last week as Middle East tensions escalated. The surge in oil implied volatility last week was twice the increase in realized vol, as the ...

- The Biden administration reimposed sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry after its six-month waiver expired on 18 April, with the White House providing oil firms with a 45-day grace period to wind ...

Oil traders have been buying a record number of options contracts in Brent Crude this month as risks of a war in the Middle East grow and market participants look to hedge against price spikes. Oil ...

CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) is set to expand its suite of short-term West Texas Intermediate ("WTI") crude oil options to include Tuesday and Thursday expiries, the derivatives exchange said on Tuesday.