{"id":595055,"date":"2026-04-09T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:21:11","slug":"bets-on-oil-before-trumps-ceasefire-follow-pattern-of-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595055\/","title":{"rendered":"Bets on oil before Trump&#8217;s ceasefire follow pattern of insider trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accusations of insider trading have long dogged the Trump administration, with reports of sizable bets \u2014 made across stocks, crypto, oil and more \u2014 suspiciously timed around major announcements from the US president. Trading activity around the uneasy two-week ceasefire in the Iran war continues this pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mere hours before Donald Trump walked back his threat to destroy Iran\u2019s \u201cwhole civilisation\u201d yesterday, unknown investors bet US$950 million (A$1.4 billion) that oil would fall, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/traders-place-large-950-million-bet-oil-price-falling-hours-ahead-ceasefire-2026-04-08\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters analysis of LSEG data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accusations of insider trading have long dogged the Trump administration, with reports of sizable bets \u2014 made across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[275600,64,63,99,2490,164,21944,124363,66037,290493],"class_list":{"0":"post-595055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-2025-iran-war","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-gambling","15":"tag-insider-trading","16":"tag-polymarket","17":"tag-predictions-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}