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Did US president Donald Trump use tariffs to manipulate markets?

# Several US senators have called for an investigation into whether President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation by encouraging people to buy stocks just before his dramatic reversal on global tariffs. The accusations came as Trump posted a few minutes after Wall Street opened that “IT’S TIME TO BUY”. A few hours later, he announced a 90-day suspension of additional tariffs against dozens of countries, with the exception of China, triggering a historic stock market rebound.