▲ 816 ▼ Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800 million in trades made on oil prices (www.9news.com.au) submitted 4 months ago by Substance_P@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.