COLUMN-Oil price rally squeezes bears, but bulls keep powder dry: Kemp <!-- no image --> <div>Hedge fund managers continued to scale back short positions in crude last week amid receding fears of a global recession and increasing signs of a slowdown in U.S. oil production growth next year.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=rLvFhlpp8UE:z9TAbVThMik:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=rLvFhlpp8UE:z9TAbVThMik:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=rLvFhlpp8UE:z9TAbVThMik:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=rLvFhlpp8UE:z9TAbVThMik:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=rLvFhlpp8UE:z9TAbVThMik:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/rLvFhlpp8UE" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters