La bourse à la rescousse : j’dis ça j’dis rien, mais le Hamas, c que des petits salopiots | The Economist | 05.12.23
▻https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/12/05/did-hamas-make-millions-trading-the-october-7th-attacks
Caught short
Did Hamas make millions trading the October 7th attacks?
Researchers highlight suspicious activity in New York and Tel Aviv
In the run-up to its attack on Israel on October 7th, Hamas maintained tight operational security. The timing of the assault blindsided Israel’s army and intelligence services, and appears to have surprised even some of Hamas’s political leaders. However, a new working paper by Robert Jackson Jr, a former commissioner of America’s Securities and Exchange Commission, and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University suggests that someone had enough advance knowledge of the plan to make a small fortune profiting from a crash in the Israeli stockmarket.
The authors analysed trading patterns in Israeli shares in the weeks before the attack, and found anomalies consistent with a grim form of informed trading. Perhaps the most striking example is a surge in short sales—bets that a security’s price will fall—of a relatively illiquid exchange-traded fund (etf), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker eis, and tracks an index of Israeli share prices.
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Related: Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire
Et si c’était un membre du gouv Israelien :-) ?
Ah mais là, on saura jamais, comme eux c’est pas des terroristes, le secret bancaire jouera.
