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Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. [1] In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information is illegal. The rationale for this prohibition of insider trading differs between countries/regions.
To what extent Rule 10b-5 prohibits insider trading is a matter of some dispute. The SEC has long advocated an "equal access theory" with regard to 10b-5, arguing that anyone who has material, non-public information must either disclose that information or abstain from trading.
SEC Rule 10b5-1, codified at 17 CFR 240.10b5-1, is a regulation enacted by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2000. [1] The SEC states that Rule 10b5-1 was enacted in order to resolve an unsettled issue over the definition of insider trading, [2] which is prohibited by SEC Rule 10b-5.
In 2006, a federal jury found Skilling guilty of 19 charges, including one count of insider trading. Why It Matters Jeffrey Skilling pulled something of an Al Capone on this one.
When the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday filed insider-trading charges against Rajat Gupta, former head of consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and former Goldman Sachs (GS) board member ...
A former executive within the treasury department of Bristol-Myers Squibb , who pleaded guilty in federal court last month to securities fraud, has settled related insider-trading charges brought ...
The Texas Gulf Sulphur decision represented the first time a federal court held that insider trading violated federal securities laws. [2] The SEC in Cady, Roberts & Co. (1961) had extensively treated insider trading and set out the "disclose or abstain rule", but as an agency opinion, it did not have precedential value in federal courts. [35]
The other type of insider trading is the purchase or sale of a security based on material non-public information. This type of trading is illegal in most instances. In illegal insider trading, an insider or a related party trades based on material non-public information obtained during the performance of the insider's duties at the corporation ...