Appeal Reversal Triggered Trump Stock Buying

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President Trump’s recent stock-trading frenzy was triggered by a court’s reversal of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $500 million judgment against him, the Wall Street Journal reports.Off the hook for that penalty, Trump quickly began investing the $175 million he had sitting in a Schwab account as collateral.Within days, he was buying and selling dozens of stocks as an automated trading strategy put the cash to work.