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Autistic futures trader who triggered crash spared prison

By MICHAEL TARM | January 28, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. judge Tuesday sentenced a socially awkward math whiz-turned-futures trader who earned tens of millions of dollars over several years and helped trigger a U.S. stock market “flash crash” from his parents’ suburban London home...