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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Jan 7

🚨BREAKING🚨

I just released the full report on Congress trading in 2024.

Like every year since 2020, some US politicians beat the market.

From the start of 2024 to year end, many had unusual trades & huge portfolio gains.

Here are the top political traders of 2024.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Hamas says we declare an end to the war today and the start of premanent ceasefire

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4h

Trump on China: Maybe we will have to stop importing massive amounts from China

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Trump has said that he will be making permanent cuts to Democrat programs in the US government shutdown

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: The IRS announced new 2026 federal income tax brackets. The top 37% rate will apply to income above $640,600 for individuals and $768,700 for joint filers.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 6h

"America’s homeowner population has stopped growing," per Redfin.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 7h

"China is ditching the dollar, fast," per the Economist.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: The United States has approved several billion dollars worth of Nvidia’s, $NVDA, chip exports to the United Arab Emirates, per Bloomberg

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Trump has said: Gaza will be rebuilt.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Trump says Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of peace plan, hostages to be released and Israeli troops to withdraw

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: IRS to furlough 46% of staff

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

486,000 people live full-time in an RV in 2025, more than twice as many as in 2021, per NBC.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

Former FBI director James Comey pleads not guilty in first court appearance

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is considering selling parts of its $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loan debt to the private market, per Forbes

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

Fed's Kashkari says he hasn't seen large-scale unemployment due to AI

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Nvidia, $NVDA, is an equity investor in Elon’s xAI, per Reuters

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will not be providing financial support to farmers due to government shut down

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Trump has said: If a Governor can't do their job, we will... the Insurrection act has been used before.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

Equities now account for 32% of total US household assets, an all time high, per Goldman Sachs, $GS.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this.

White House has said that the US to take 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, $TMQ.

It is up 215% in after hours.

Did someone know? Looks like it.

There was an unusual $TMQ call today, expiring next week. Usually, it gets no options volume.

It was placed JUST BEFORE close.

Unusual.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Tudor Jones has said that stocks could surge sharply before a “blow-off” top, comparing today’s setup to 1999’s tech bubble.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT has hit 800 million weekly active users

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

White House announces 25% tariff for medium and heavy-duty trucks to start November 1

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years, per MorePerfectUnion.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AMD stock, $AMD, soars over +25% on news that OpenAI is taking up to a 10% stake in the company.

OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in 2026.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d

It has been a great week for Unusual Whales users, both on our software and our discord!

You can join our discord and software here: unusualwhales.com

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