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US DoJ investigating a series of suspiciously timed trades in the oil market just ahead of major announcements by President Trump about the war against Iran, via ABC citing sources

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The DoJ, along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is probing at least four of these trades where traders made a total of more than USD 2.6bln betting that oil prices would drop right before they did.

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