Suspicious $800M Oil Trades Probed by CFTC Ahead of Trump's Social Media Post
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating suspicious crude oil futures trading that occurred on March 23. On that day, a wave of trades totaling over $800 million flooded the market just minutes before former U.S. President Trump announced on social media that he was delaying an attack on Iran. This announcement caused oil prices to plummet, allowing traders who had correctly timed their short positions to reap substantial profits. The CFTC is trying to determine if insiders used non-public information to trade or leaked it, with at least three firms, including Qube Research & Technologies, Forza Fund Ltd, and TotalEnergies' unit Totsa, now under scrutiny.