Authorities in Israel are investigating claims made by U.S. researchers that traders put outsize short positions on Israeli stocks and an exchange-traded fund ahead of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Reuters reported Monday.
The Israel Securities Authority said the matter “is known to the authority and is under investigation by all the relevant parties,” according to Reuters.
Researchers examined trading in exchange-traded funds that invest in Israeli companies, as well as short-selling activity on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and options activity around Israeli firms traded on U.S. exchanges.
“Taken together, our evidence is consistent with informed traders anticipating and profiting from the Hamas attack,” wrote law professors Robert J. Jackson, Jr., of New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University in a paper published on Monday. The authors emphasized the “preliminary nature” of the paper.
Citing an Oct. 2 spike in short interest in the iShares MSCI Israel Exchange Traded Fund EIS, which tracks a broad-based index of Israeli companies, the authors said that “traders appeared to anticipate the events to come.” …
The authors also found an increase in short-dated options contracts on shares of Israeli firms traded on U.S. exchanges expiring on Oct. 13 relative to options expiring later in the year.
“We show that this increase in short-dated options can be linked to several block trades in options written on Israeli companies in U.S. markets, suggesting that a small number of actors may have been behind this options trading,” they wrote.
Season’s Greetings and Wishes…
That these dark days continue so cold that moneychangers keep their hands in each other’s and their own pockets.
https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/01/little-iceland-whacks-the-bankers/
The supposedly courageous cardinal has shown himself to be a ridiculous conspiracy theorist of the caliber of Alex Jones, otherwise he would at least put the hackneyed term “globalists” in triple parentheses. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-cardinal-muller-says-mass-migration-is-being-used-to-destroy-national-identities/
How does the poor Aquarius finally find the right woman?
“I’m proud that at least with you I finally have the courage to speak to a woman, because with extremely pretty women I regularly lack the courage.”
If she laughs, then she is definitely your woman; she has understood your sense of humor and can handle it with confidence!
“Oh, it’s nice to be with you. Aquarians are so entertaining without being vain at the same time! How relaxing that is! And your insights! But you are so distant, as if you live in a distant foreign world. You are too wonderful to be true, you cannot be grasped and possessed. Somehow that reassures me.”
“What do you see in the many shapes of the clouds?” “Lots of laughing clowns, often even two-headed ones! I’ve resisted them for a long time, but I’m powerless. I’ve finally come to terms with it. I only ever see clowns!” “You’re so funny, that makes me feel good.” (Is there a better compliment from a woman to a man?)
Women want to reassure themselves about their relationship. That’s why they regularly pull on the leash, or rather on the collar they think they’ve put on you like a puppy:
“You haven’t contacted me for so long, don’t you miss me at all? How do you actually do that, where do you get the cheek not to keep pestering me?”
“I’ve completely forgotten. How good of you to remind me!”
“You bastard!”
“I’m my favorite bastard, aren’t I?”
“Unfortunately yes, because I suffer from wringing even a breeze of emotion from you.”
“I have emotions, strong emotions, but they are of a mental nature. For example, I can get very deeply involved in a subject if it has no emotional content.”
“Wonderful, you my beloved clown! I can’t replace you because you are so unique and unmistakable.”
“You see, and since I know that, I rely entirely on your feelings instead of mine! That’s a wonderful symbiosis!”