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.

  • rapchee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    10 hours ago

    i might be too optimistic, but i think they are screwed in the long term, the dems could have will-they won‘t-they-d progressives forever, but trump had to get EVERYTHING and now even fans seem to turn away
    then again, i’m not an american, maybe i don’t feel the temperature correctly over the pond