James Woolcock
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Rewind two weeks.
It was 6.49am in New York on a Thursday, and a relatively sleepy hour of the trading day suddenly spikes.
Billions of dollars changed hands in futures contracts for the S&P, Brent and the Stoxx 50.
Fifteen minutes later, President Trump posts online about positive discussions with Iran, making those earlier bets a lot of money.
Anonymous accounts on prediction markets also saw an early flurry of correct bets, which prompted the White House's management office to warn staff the day later about insider trading.
Bloomberg has no evidence White House officials did profit from inside information, which would be a gross breach of ethics rules and the law.
In London, James Wilcock, Bloomberg Radio.
Rewind two weeks.
It was 6.49am in New York on a Thursday and a relatively sleepy hour of the trading day suddenly spikes.
Billions of dollars changed hands in futures contracts for the S&P, Brent and the Stoxx 50.
Fifteen minutes later, President Trump posts online about positive discussions with Iran, making those earlier bets a lot of money.
Anonymous accounts on prediction markets also saw an early flurry of correct bets, which prompted the White House's management office to warn staff the day later about insider trading.
Bloomberg has no evidence White House officials did profit from inside information, which would be a gross breach of ethics rules and the law.
In London, James Woolcock, Bloomberg Radio.
Rewind two weeks.
It was 6.49am in New York on a Thursday and a relatively sleepy hour of the trading day suddenly spikes.
Billions of dollars changed hands in futures contracts for the S&P, Brent and the Stoxx 50.
Fifteen minutes later, President Trump posts online about positive discussions with Iran, making those earlier bets a lot of money.
Anonymous accounts on prediction markets also saw an early flurry of correct bets, which prompted the White House's management office to warn staff the day later about insider trading.
Bloomberg has no evidence White House officials did profit from inside information, which would be a gross breach of ethics rules and the law.