Bleeding Edge Redux

[rich]

Just like in the summer of 2001, the board was flashing red leading up to
Oct 7. Lower-level Israeli intelligence officers (many of them women) were
warning superiors about Hamas' plans, but those warnings were rebuffed.
Wall Street has gotten pretty sophisticated with risk management software,
like Blackrock's Aladdin. god knows how much and what type of data these
programs vacuum up. somehow it all gets fed and digested into some
semblance of an investment strategy.

rich

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 11:06 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did Hamas Make Millions Betting Against Israeli Shares?
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> https://politicalwire.com/2023/12/04/did-hamas-make-millions-betting-against-israeli-shares/
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> December 4, 2023 at 10:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard
> <https://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/> 1 Comment
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> https://politicalwire.com/2023/12/04/did-hamas-make-millions-betting-against-israeli-shares/#disqus_thread
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> “Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 caught the Israeli army unprepared.
> But somebody seemingly knew in advance and made billions betting against
> Israeli shares traded locally and on Wall Street five days before the
> attack,” Haaretz
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> https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-04/ty-article-magazine/.premium/did-hamas-make-billions-betting-against-israeli-shares-before-october-7-massacre/0000018c-348d-d5f2-a5cc-769d7bea0000
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>  reports.
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> “Short-selling Israeli shares – betting that they will fall – spiked in the
> days before October 7, far exceeding the short selling during ‘numerous
> other periods of crisis,’ Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Joshua Mitts and
> colleagues wrote in a paper titled ‘Trading on Terror?
> <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027>‘ published
> Sunday on SSRN.”
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