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.
Don’t even need to be corrupt. The US administration is so incompetent that you don’t even need it. Trump uses twitter instead of official channels to make announcements. If you own twitter, you can just put a delay on trump’s tweets and let you read em before everyone else.
Not that this isn’t corruption, just that they are incompetent in addition to corrupt.