Article: London financial district bets against oil at $50 in next month.

By Angus McCrone, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 17--City punters believe there is only a one-in-five chance oil prices will break the $50 a barrel mark within the next month despite the series of records set on both sides of the Atlantic since the start of August.

Traders claim that smaller players are also beginning to take up short positions to "pick the top" of the oil price in the belief it will start to ease in the run-up to the fourth quarter of the year.

James Parker, a dealer at City Index, said: "There are people betting on even higher prices, and some of these have quite large positions, but ...

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