US researchers documented a “significant” spike in market trade speculating on Israeli companies’ decline just days before 7 October, when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel and killed more than 1,200 people. Law professors Robert Jackson Jr from New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University claim in a preliminary report that unknown traders could have known about Hamas’ plan to attack Israel and used this information to trade on the Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges. “Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” the report…

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