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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    I think they actually revel in it. Like, “look what we can get away with and you’re not going to do shit about it”