US senators call for insider-trading probe into Trump's tariff moves

Trump faces ‘insider trading’ accusations

Undoubtedly, every time Donald Trump has activated, reversed, or paused trade tariffs, stock markets worldwide have reacted in either direction. However, whether the US president has done it purposely or engaged in insider trading is a whole different story. On Wednesday, before making a dramatic reversal on his trade war that led to significant rises in stock markets around the world… Source

Elizabeth Warren and other senators call for an SEC investigation into Trump’s ‘great time to buy’ post

Senators including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chuck Schumer of New York signed a letter on Friday asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate President Trump. The move comes after the president’s April 9 Truth Social post in which he told followers it was a “GREAT TIME TO BUY”—just hours before announcing a 90-day pause on the sweeping international tariffs that he’d enacted just days earlier.  The letter urges …

US senators demand investigation into Trump's potential insider trading

US senators call for insider-trading probe into Trump's tariff moves

A group of US senators urged the government's watchdog on Friday to investigate whether President Donald Trump and some of his allies broke insider-trading laws by buying up stocks as they plummeted on the news of Trump's tariffs before he backtracked on the decision, sending stocks soaring.

Democratic senators have asked for an investigation to determine whether Trump committed an offence by encouraging the purchase of shares.