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404 Media reported a story on Monday[1] about a news outlet that claimed there'd be a 90-day break on tariffs for all countries besides China. This was published a few days before the official announcement.

So someone, somewhere, knew something before everyone else.

[1] https://www.404media.co/benzinga-news-service-that-falsely-r...

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Good cover: publicly release a rumor via a random tiny outlet (along with a flurry of other rumors). Then if questioned, just say you heard it there.

Benzinga is not a tiny outlet at all. There’s quite some trading platforms that distribute their news to their customers, like Interactive Brokers.

Benzinga has probably 40 writers or so. And they do syndicate out to other platforms. They also sell their real-time web traffic and ticker attribution data to hedge funds who will trade on the info.

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