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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Hunt for ‘blood oil inside traders' who made millions from Trump’s halt on energy strikes in Iran war

Financial authorities were under pressure to investigate whether investors raked in tens of millions of dollars through insider trading linked to Donald Trump’s halt on attacks on Iran’s energy sites.

Trades worth nearly $600 million (£448 million) were placed on oil markets just minutes before the US president posted a message on his Truth Social platform, according to the Financial Times, which sent the price of oil plunging and stock markets soaring.

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