Jammu, April 11 -- Trump family is extracting big benefits from the futures dealing in markets
By C.J. Atkins
NEW YORK: While ordinary Americans watch gas prices climb, someone with a lot of money-and apparently the right connections-appears to have made a fortune in a single minute.
On the morning of March 22, just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, oil futures markets lit up. In a single 60-second window, between 6:49 and 6:50 a.m., nearly 6,200 oil contracts were traded with a total value around $580 million. The average volume for that time period over the preceding five days had been barely more than a tenth of that-a mere 700 contracts.
There was no public news at that moment. No economic data had just dropped. It was a quiet morning. Bu...