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Surge in global betting on energy markets seen on Monday morning 15 minutes prior to Donald Trump’s Truth Social post announcing ‘productive’ talks with Iran

A surge in betting on global oil markets just 15 minutes before Donald Trump announced a temporary halt to his airstrikes on Iran this week has sparked claims of insider trading.

Trump said on his Truth Social platform at 7.05 a.m. Monday: “I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.”

Iran denied any such talks had taken place, branding them “fake news”.

But according to Bloomberg, at least 6 million barrels of Brent and West Texas Intermediate were suddenly sold between 6.49 a.m. and 6.51 a.m, raising suspicions that word of the president’s announcement was leaked in advance.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Now there is concern? A little late to the game. This happens weekly. I'm not even sure if the stock market is based on any sort of reality nowadays, after it's been so manipulated by trump and his cabal of opportunistic scoundrels.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

casino has been rigged for a hell of a lot longer than trump and co.

stock market has been the only thing anyone running this country cares about since Carter and Rothschild pegged everyones retirement to the casino

read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, basically a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to how this shit works written over a century ago

$ is the only thing that has ever been sacred to america

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

casino has been rigged for a hell of a lot longer than trump and co.

Perhaps, but it wasn't always this blatant and this volume.

Question: is it market manipulation if he has no idea what he's doing?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

All politicians and their companies should be banned from owning stock

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 3 hours ago

Question is, why are you even allowing trading on it when it's clearly being manipulated to fuck?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

We're at concern... It's happened like 6 times source my supposedly slow and steady eft going ham

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

“Leaked in advance?” code for don't have the ovaries to say "insider trading".

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

to say "insider trading"

You mean like in the first sentence of the article? Do you read in a reverse order?

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah, I often read the comments to decide if it's worth reading the article, and sometimes comment off that, oops, you got me. Actually maybe that is reverse order.

Guessing it's pretty much what I expected anyway, and I'm likely to have said much the same anyway.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Futures trading is gonna fucking kill us all. More people have gone to jail over sports betting than market manipulation.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

The fact there isn't like a 1 day mandatory delay in making these kind of bets is why this bullshit keeps happening

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 14 hours ago

In a sane world it would be illegal, or just betting rather than trading (if there's a significant difference beyond the house being a more forgiving stock exchange).

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The returns for insiders of front-running Trump posts/speeches are way smaller than they would be if he didn't lie and flip-flop all the time: the market simply doesn't react anywhere as much to whatever Trump states than it would if he was honest and consistent, so the spikes up or down (and thus the gains from front-running his statements) are much lower.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 106 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Concern". Fuck hand-wringing journalism.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 57 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A 20 year old who steals a pack of oranges is a "hardened criminal", but literal corruption in front of our eyes is "maybe concern, possibly"

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 9 points 19 hours ago

Literal corruption? Try a double front genocide.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Who plays a game that's obviously rigged against them? Just pull out of American markets. All of them.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm pulling all my money out of American stock indexes, but this whole oil futures bullshit affects all of us. Even those who don't drive ICE vehicles, because oil going up means diesel going up means food prices going up in grocery stores

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 4 points 9 hours ago

Who plays a game that’s obviously rigged against them?

The market is not just a casino. There are actually people who use oil who buy oil futures. Exiting the "game" would mean not buying or using oil in America, for them.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean if the American markets crash no market is safe. Money is more fake than it ever has been.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Time to go back to trading pelts.

[–] ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I will trade 1 cask of beer and 10 potatoes for pelts from a billionaire

[–] baitu@jlai.lu 6 points 17 hours ago

It's the most juicy market, that's why people continue to invest on it but I noticed more investments on the european market since US became untrustworthy

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I live here. Can't exactly boycott my own backyard

[–] sensualsunset@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Join a credit union, shop local. just keep it out of the banks and in the hands of your comrades. Sorry about your tax dollars though :(

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 21 points 19 hours ago

"Leaked in advance?"

What reason is there to think that it's not just him (or his family, trusted stooges, and other intermediaries) doing this deliberately for his own profit?

[–] melechric@lemmy.world 31 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone with more than sawdust between their ears knew he was going to do this. It's his modus operandi: cause chaos and watch the markets plummet - then buy cheap and reverse course. Markets recover, and he (and his cronies) profit!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Except the markets have been bleeding out for months.

A falling tide sinks all ships

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A falling tide creates opportunities for short positions.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Plenty of short sellers (myself included) have been burned, thinking we could predict short term business cycles in advance.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking called it. This is fraud. I really hope one day the US government justice system will finally do its job and send people to jail over this.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

The trick is not settling for geriatric neoliberals who won't stop talking about how fondly he remembers "the good old days" when Republicans and him smoked cigars, drank whiskey, and conspiracied to prolong school segregation...

Or about how nothing could every make him stop supporting a far right ethnistate currently committing genocide...

Like, most Americans want to hold these asshats accountable. The problem is prior DNCs were rigging primaries. The good news is the modern DNC isn't pulling that type of shit already, and we've been seeing the gains for a minute

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is complete fucking bullshit. We’d better ex post facto the shit out of this corrupt administration.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I've got Merrick Garland on the phone. He says actually there's nothing we can do. It's all perfectly legal and you're a criminal for going on TikTok to suggest otherwise

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

I bought OILK when it dropped. Israel acting like a toddler and lashing out when it didn't get what it wanted was the most predictable thing ever.

Strait closed again.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, strongly worded letter inbound!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

Hey, cool your jets. There's a process. It has to start with brow-furrowing.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Of course it was. This guy measures the success of the country as a whole based off the fucking stock market. Its insanity.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

More insane is the fact that he was choosen twice as a president of the USA. If voting process wasn't compromised in his favor, this raises a lot of questions about self awareness of the USA citizens.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

It was compromised, but the self-awareness of USians is also a major concern.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Based on how he's doing in the stock market.