{"id":581469,"date":"2026-04-10T15:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/white-house-warns-staff-as-iran-bets-add-to-growing-insider-trading-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:52:43","slug":"white-house-warns-staff-as-iran-bets-add-to-growing-insider-trading-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/white-house-warns-staff-as-iran-bets-add-to-growing-insider-trading-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"White House warns staff as Iran bets add to growing insider trading concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reuters reported that White House staff were warned against using confidential information after suspicious Iran-linked oil futures bets and fresh scrutiny of prediction markets.<\/p>\n

The White House warned staff against improperly using confidential information to place bets in futures markets after suspicious oil trades ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s March 23 Iran announcement drew scrutiny, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported<\/a> on Thursday that the White House sent the internal email on March 24, a day after Trump ordered a five-day delay in attacks on Iran\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The warning followed a roughly $500 million bet on Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures placed in a one-minute burst shortly before Trump\u2019s March 23 announcement, according<\/a> to Reuters calculations based on exchange data. Oil prices fell about 15% after the policy shift.<\/p>\n

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Reuters reported that White House staff were warned against using confidential information after suspicious Iran-linked oil futures bets and fresh scrutiny of prediction markets. The White House warned staff against improperly using confidential information to place bets in futures markets after suspicious oil trades ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s March 23 Iran announcement drew scrutiny, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-581469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}