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This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Whalen Wong.

And I'm Darym Woods.

And I'm Nick Fountain.

Hi.

And Nick, it is awesome to have you back in the Indicator Sandbox because today is Indicators

of the week.

So it's that day of the week when we talk about our favorite numbers from the news.

And on today's episode, we're talking about the savvy stock trades that President Trump's been doing.

A high-states athletic competition that Dare asks, what if all the athletes were doping?

And pop star Shakira's Spanish tax drama.

All of that after the break.

It's Indicators of the Week.

Dary and Woods, you're up first. My indicator is 3,642. And that's how many

financial trades President Trump disclosed he made in the first three months of this year. He bought

the shares of companies like Uber, Chipotle, Tesla, Verizon, Disney. The list goes on.

And when you say President Trump, is this him making these trades or is it someone else?

It's mostly his financial advisor, and the White House has said in response to this disclosure

that the president's accounts are managed by independent third-party institutions.

That said, there were hundreds of trades marked unsolicited. These are trades

that aren't Trump's financial advisor's recommendations. So it implies that hundreds were Trump.

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