At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.

6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.

But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    27·
    21 hours ago

    Trump was invited on a news program many years ago to be the pro corruption side of a debate. And did not disappoint. He doesn’t hide who he is I suppose.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      Yeah but these days they’re just doing full mask-off extra-corrupt just-pay-me-bitch corruption.

      Like paying $1bn to the “board of peace” of which Trump is the supreme chairperson eternal ?

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 hours ago

        In the interview he was arguing that it shouldn’t be illegal. And that we were missing an opportunity… so now that he controls the DOJ, he is just acting like it isn’t illegal, because effectively it isn’t.

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I bet that group is working hard around the clock on the Iran problem …

        Right ?

        … right ?

        • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
          3·
          15 hours ago

          Yeah, I mean it’s in the name. When things aren’t peaceful this dynamic team of diplomatic masterminds goes to work.