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Traders seek an edge with high-tech snooping

A growing industry uses surveillance and data-crunching technology to supply traders with non-public information

A helicopter lifted off recently from an airfield in this remote oil town, scudded low across the flat industrial landscape and trained a heat-sensitive camera at the huge storage tanks below.

Its mission: Gather intelligence for Wall Street.

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