Oil bets surge before Trump’s Iran pause, fueling market shakeout
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More than $580 million in crude futures bets were placed in a 1-minute window (about 6:49–6:50 a.m. ET) just before President Trump announced a pause in planned strikes on Iran, helping trigger a sharp oil price drop and a rally in stock futures. The trades’ exact positions and the traders involved remain unclear, and there is no evidence of insider information.
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