The dubious Reuters report we got the other day about Tesla cancelling the Model 2 got me thinking, what's preventing the authors or anyone else working in that office taking advantage of stock market moves before such an article gets published?
I mean you don't even need to be the author, imagine you're just someone working on the same floor or a colleague of a colleague mentioned they're coming out with this piece the next day or later in the afternoon. If you work at a generally highly trusted and widely read publisher like Reuters, it seems like you could game stock market knee-jerk reactions some of the time at least. Clearly even funds and institutional players rely on these publishers to make their moves on the market, so couldn't a well-placed smart journalist end up being a step ahead of them fairly regularly?
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