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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.
On Friday October 16, 2009, Raj Rajaratnam was arrested by the FBI and accused of conspiring with others in insider trading in several publicly traded companies. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara put the total profits in the scheme at over $60 million, telling a news conference it was the largest hedge fund insider trading case in United States history.
[22] [23] Instead of trading memberships being confined to a group of brokers, NSE ensured that anyone who was qualified, experienced, and met the minimum financial requirements was allowed to trade. [24] NSE commenced operations on 30 June 1994 [25] starting with the wholesale debt market (WDM) segment and equities segment on 3 November 1994. [26]
And it’s reigniting insider-trading concerns. Nancy Pelosi’s husband dumped 2,000 Visa (V) shares in July — just weeks before the payments giant was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice ...
An insider trading trial began Tuesday for a financial executive charged with enabling his boss and others to make millions of dollars illegally on news that an acquisition firm would be taking ...
SEC Rule 10b-5, codified at 17 CFR 240.10b-5, is one of the most important rules targeting securities fraud in the United States. It was promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), pursuant to its authority granted under § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. [1]
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.
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