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title: "Flurry of suspicious oil trades worth $800 million triggers regulatory probe"
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description: "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is parsing records of trades made before a social-media post by President Trump."
datetime: "2026-05-20T01:13:18.000Z"
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# Flurry of suspicious oil trades worth $800 million triggers regulatory probe

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is parsing records of trades made before a social-media post by President Trump.

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