Stock Market Makes Suspicious Move Moments Prior to Inflation Report ⋆ If insider information was shared, it would simply reinforce the ideas that many Americans have about the ruling class’s rigging of the economic game. ⋆ Flag And Cross

For many Americans, even the mere mention of the stock market can conjure all sorts of unkind feelings.  For a great number of us, this is just the corporate world’s casino, where they gamble and launder and trade in secret information, playing the game inside the game, all while regular, working class Americans try to invest what little they can in a stable market.

This week brought us yet another strange incident to add to the evidence pile, as the stock market appeared to react to the positive news on inflation before the report was made public.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for President Joe Biden, quickly brushed off the question when it came in toward the end of her daily press conference Tuesday. No, she said, there was no chance that anyone in the White House leaked the November inflation report before its 8:30 a.m. publication. Too much fuss was being made, as she saw it, over what were just “minor market movements.”

Her characterization was far from honest.

But there was nothing minor about the rally that took hold in the seconds before the better-than-expected inflation number hit the Labor Department’s website.

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Stock futures suddenly spiked more than 1%. Trading in Treasury futures surged, pushing benchmark yields lower by about 4 basis points. Those are major moves in such a short period of time — bigger than full-session swings on some days. And they should get scrutinized by regulators, long-time market observers say, even if a leak is only one of several possible explanations for why traders suddenly started buying right before the report was published.

Experts were concerned:

Significant “trading activity ahead of market-changing news is suspicious and typically worthy of regulatory agencies making appropriate inquiries,” said Jerome Selvers, chair of the securities regulatory enforcement & litigation practice at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden. “This is unusual, especially given the reduction in inflation that was reported, which was well in excess of what markets anticipated,” he said. “Someone will likely look into it, whether it’s innocent or not.”

If insider information was shared, it would simply reinforce the ideas that many Americans have about the ruling class’s rigging of the economic game.

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