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>Do you think they just happened to be looking at their trading screens during that minute of the day?

Or they set up something like an RSS feed and had their phones ring when a keyword was mentioned. Knowing the story is coming is enough to make sure you're prepared.

Even if you did have advanced knowledge of when it was supposed to publish you would do this, so they can't betray you or nothing like a time zone mistake can ruin everything.