Are Trump's friends getting filthy rich on his “peace deal“?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
"Unusual activity" was observed on the main US stock market just fifteen minutes before Donald Trump went public with the sudden and unexpected news that he would stop striking Iranian energy sites and talks with Tehran were apparently going well. Trading volumes were up to six times higher than normal - with oil futures seeing a sudden flurry of activity in the moments before Trump broke that news.
More than half a billion dollars was netted in that brief window, but it's not clear how. Experts and analysts are sounding the alarm about the activity - could some people close to Trump have known what was coming and gone straight to the market to place their bets? Why are Trump allies blocking investigators from looking into the Trump family and their allies? And what does this mean for the much bigger question of where the plans for peace actually stand ?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.0 | Have some people been getting filthy rich on a peace deal that doesn't even exist? |
| 0:13.1 | Some Ayatollah in a theocratic state, you think he's probably more trustworthy to believe |
| 0:18.8 | than the President of the United States and the leader of the free world. |
| 0:23.4 | Napoleon, come and eat your supper, eat your peas, come on, sit down. That's a sort of American press's sort of approach. |
| 0:28.7 | It does a politician no harm to stand up to Donald Trump. |
| 0:35.3 | This is a Global player original podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | We're doing a five-day period. We'll see how that goes. And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. |
| 0:45.1 | Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out. |
| 0:47.8 | That was Donald Trump yesterday at the foot of Air Force One with a shock announcement that there was going to be peace in our time. |
| 0:55.0 | Because all over the weekend, the only words we'd heard from Donald Trump were bellicose. |
| 1:00.6 | But something, somewhere, had changed. |
| 1:04.1 | But now the alarm is being sounded over suspicions of insider trading. |
| 1:09.2 | Are some people getting filthy rich on the back of an announcement that probably wasn't even true? |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:23.3 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:24.9 | It's John? |
| 1:25.5 | It's mailers. |
| 1:26.5 | You still, why have you ditched your first name? |
| 1:29.4 | Is this a permanent thing? |
| 1:30.5 | Permanent thing. |
| 1:31.3 | Serious times, my friend, serious times. |
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