A group of 14 Democratic senators is asking federal agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe possible market manipulation timed to President Donald Trump's comments on trade talks with China and other events. Senators including Jack Reed of Rhode Island wrote to the SEC and other agencies in the wake of a Vanity Fair report that traders may have made more than a billion dollars in potential profits from suspicious market bets timed to futures trades and statements or actions from Trump. The article delved into what it called the Trump "chaos trades." The senators ask the agencies to investigate whether any rules were broken and to hold violators accountable to the fullest possible extent.