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• Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that a trading house called Vega Capital London made $500 million during oil's historic plunge below zero.
• Oil turned negative in April when the commodity's May futures contract expired, meaning that anyone holding the contract would be forced to take delivery of the physical oil.
• Vega, a small trading house in London, made huge profits by selling oil contracts just before the contract settled, sources told Bloomberg.
• The... Читать дальше...

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• Hackers appear to have taken over several big YouTube channels in recent weeks, changing the channels' names to topics like "SpaceX" or "Elon Musk" and promoting Bitcoin scams.
• The hacked channels, some of which have tens or hundreds of thousands of subscribers, post videos urging people to send Bitcoin in order to be paid back double — a common scam tactic.
• It bears similarities to the tactics used by hackers who compromised hundreds of high-profile Twitter accounts last month. Читать дальше...

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