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Crude Oil Trades 15 Minutes Before Trump’s Iran Announcement Trigger Insider Trading Probe

Approximately 6,200 futures contracts worth $580 million executed at 6:49 a.m. ET on March 23—before Trump posted about ceasefire talks—expose how thin premarket liquidity creates billion-dollar front-running windows for politically connected traders.

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