Not enough is being made of this. He’s playing ‘the markets’ like a fiddle. Notice how utterances that cause a shift are happening on Friday afternoons and Monday mornings
Spot on, and the Iranians, at least, are wise to it:
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Monday that “no negotiations” were held with the United States after US president Donald Trump announced talks were ongoing.
“No negotiations have been held with the US, and fakenews is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped,”
Trump was doing much the same market manipulation with his stream of on-then-off trade tariffs.