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insider trading

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insider trading, stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), agency of the U.S. government created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and charged with protecting the interests of the public and investors in connection with the public issuance and sale of corporate securities.
..... Click the link for more information.  regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider trading scandals shook Wall Street in the mid-1980s.

insider trading

Illegal use of insider information for profit in financial trading. Since 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission has prohibited trading while in possession of material nonpublic information. See also arbitrage, Michael R. Milken.



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Moreover, some companies went so far as to skirt insider trading rules and other ethical constricts by timing stock prices at dates either before or after significant corporate events, either increasing or decreasing the share price--practices known as "spring loading" and "bullet dodging"
Backdating backlash: will corporate insurers be wiped out by a tidal ... by Kennell, Patrick M. / Best's Review
The West Coast SEC enforcement and white-collar defense unit of Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom LLP has won an insider trading case with boardroom ramifications.
Stock answer by York, Emily Bryson / Los Angeles Business Journal
2005-48 (IRB 2005-32, 8/8/05) holds that an employee (E) who exercises a nonstatutory option before the end of a six-month "lock-up period" must recognize income from that exercise even if E's sale of the stock is restricted under the insider trading rules.
Recent developments: FLPs, option income and home office depreciation by Josephs, Stuart R. / California CPA
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