$950 m bet before Trump's announcement? US senators urge probe into ‘unusual’ oil trading

US Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse have urged the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate suspicious oil trading activity. They flagged a recurring pattern of well-timed trades preceding key policy announcements by US President Donald Trump on the Iran conflict. The senators raised concerns about potential insider trading and misappropriation of material nonpublic government information. They requested written responses from the commission by April 30.