Money managers raised their net long U.S. crude futures and options positions in the week to January 18, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.

The speculator group raise its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 23,339 contracts to 317,317 during the period.

The data below exclude trader positions in the NYMEX financial crude oil futures contract, which is normally included in our aggregate calculations. The data were not provided by the CFTC this week.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by NY Energy Desk: 646-223-6050)