Oil Tanker Tycoon’s WhatsApp Messages Drive Big Market Moves

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The messages from the world’s biggest supertanker owner often begin with pleasantries: “Dear Ladies and Gentlemen.”Within minutes, the WhatsApps are the talk of the oil-tanker industry, a multibillion-dollar corner of the energy market that’s been plunged into chaos by the Iran war this year, and where word of mouth is the main way information spreads.