Rep. Ritchie Torres calls for probe into futures trades placed ahead of March pause on Iran hostilities

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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres , D-N.Y., on Wednesday called for a federal probe into suspicious trading activity in oil and equity futures markets just before President Donald Trump 's announcement of a five-day delay in attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure in March. In a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig first obtained by CNBC, Torres cites reports on a series of irregular and well-timed trades in the

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