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- profitable, usually illegal, trading in securities carried out using information not available to the public
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- DTN News: Financial News TODAY October 16, 2009 ~ U.S. Charges Billionaire Rajaratnam With Record Insider Trading
- DTN News: Financial News TODAY October 16, 2009 ~ U.S. Charges Billionaire Rajaratnam With Record Insider Trading *Source: DTN News / Reuters NSI News Source Info NEW YORK, US - October 16, 2009: Billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and five executives from some of the...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Insider Trading Probe Ensnares 14 More
- By Matthew Goldstein and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourteen people were charged with fraud and conspiracy in a dramatic widening of an insider trading scandal that has ensnared hedge fund managers, top Silicon Valley executives and a bevy of white-shoe advisers. In complaints that read like scripts for...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Can You Benefit From Insider Trading Patterns?
- A recent CNNMoney.com article took a look at corporate insider transactions, noting that "Corporate officers and directors have been selling shares at a pace last seen just before the onset of the subprime malaise two years ago."Â The question is: Should you act, or is this just "noise"? ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Boston Jury Finds Former Fidelity Investments Trader Engaged in Insider Trading
- « SEC Obtains Asset Freeze Against Minnesota Foreign Currency Trading Venture | Main The SEC announced that a federal jury in Boston returned a verdict on Nov. 20, 2009 in favor of the SEC against a former Fidelity Investments trader for insider trading. David K. Donovan, of Massachusetts, was found to...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Charges swirl around insider trading on Intel, AMD deals
- Think of it as a twist on the old rivalry between chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. But this time, the rivalry is about which company can make a hedge fund more money.The complaint filed by the government against six people on Friday details how a relatively obscure Intel...
- News items 2009-10-20
- The Regulation Of Insider Trading As An Agency Problem
- This paper attempts to shed a new light on the insider trading issue by studying the unintended effects of insider trading laws. It shows that government regulation of insider trading can actually make the problems it intends to resolve worse. More particularly, this paper shows that insider trading laws instead...
- White papers 2005-03-31
- Ruiz allegedly involved in insider trading case
- Top semiconductor industry executive Hector Ruiz has allegedly been linked to the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history, according to a Wall Street Journal WSJ report. A criminal case announced by the Manhattan US Attorney's office and the New York Office of the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Akamai CEO Sagan vows swift action against exec tied to insider trading scandal
- Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan vowed "swift and appropriate action" if the investigation into alleged insider trading activities involving one of the company's executives. Speaking to analysts during the company's third quarter earnings results conference call, Sagan said the company was caught unaware when news reports said...
- News items 2009-10-29
- US raids insider-trading gang
- A TOP US watchdog has warned financial firms they face increased scrutiny after a billionaire appeared in court on Friday charged with one of biggest hedge fund insider trading case in US history. Amid widespread public anger at Wall Street transgressions, the Securities and Exchange Commission said the indictment of...
- News items 2009-10-18
- A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading
- The paper summarizes various agency cost and market theories of insider trading propounded over the course of the perennial law and economics debate over insider trading. The paper then suggests three testable hypotheses regarding the relationship between insider trading laws and several measures financial performance. Using international data and alternative...
- White papers 2004-10-22
- Raj Rajaratnam's Awesome Insider Trading Adventure [Field Guide]
- Bernie Madoff is the financial criminal of the past . Billionaire hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam is the financial criminal of the moment! Slick back your hair, watch Wall Street , and forget Ponzi schemes— insider trading is back, big time! ...
- News items 2009-10-19
- EADS Cleared of Insider-Trading Charges
- PARIS - The French stock market regulator has cleared EADS and seven current and former executives of charges of insider trading, following a three-year inquiry into the controversial exercise of stock options. The Authorité des Marchés Financiers AMF market watchdog released the information on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. local...
- News items 2009-12-18
- Stock Market Insider Trading: Victims, Violators And Remedies-Including An Analogy To Fraud In The Sale Of A Used Car With A Generic Defect
- This Article discusses the following two questions: (1) Is the act of stock market insider trading as opposed to the accompanying nondisclosure or lie a victimless crime? (2) Is stock market insider trading fraud? The Article also briefly addresses two additional questions: (1) When does insider trading or tipping violate...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Uncovering Insider Trading
- It isn't a coincidence that corporate executives seem to always buy and sell at the right times. After all, the CEOs and CFOs of the world have access to every bit of company information one could ever want. This doesn't mean individual investors are left in the dark. Insider trading...
- White papers 2002-06-12
- Insider trading net entangles further suspects
- When federal agents arrested Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, in October, hedge fund managers across the US sat up and took notice. US prosecutors accused Mr Rajaratnam and five others of operating a $20m (£12m) insider-trading ring, and the investigation appeared initially to focus on hedge funds. Regulators...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Does Insider Trading Impair Market Liquidity?: Evidence From IPO Lockup Expirations
- This paper tests the hypothesis that insider trading impairs market liquidity, by analyzing intraday trades and quotes around 1,497 IPO lockup expirations in the period 1995-1999. We find that, while lockup expirations are associated with considerable insider trading for some IPO Initial Public Offering firms, they have little effect on...
- White papers 2006-09-02
- Insider Trading Website Up
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--July 20, 1998--PanAmerican BanCorp/Purewater (NASDAQ OTC: PRWT) announced today the opening of Insider Trading's web site.Insider Trading offers a securities trading system which employs state-of-the-art computer hardware and software to instantly provide investors real-time market data and an extremely fast order execution system. Insider Trading's enhanced Internet application...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
- PanAmerican BanCorp to Franchise Insider Trading Centers
- HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 25, 1999-- PanAmerican BanCorp (OTC BB: PABN) announced today that it has retained Harold L. Kestenbaum, a nationally renowned franchise attorney, to establish the legal structure for the franchising of Insider Trading Centers. The franchising of Insider Trading Centers will enable PanAmerican BanCorp to rapidly achieve...
- Research articles 1999-05-25
- Billionaire charged over insider trading
- Investigators said they used court-approved telephone wire taps for the first time in a Wall St insider trading case, sending shivers through the hedge fund industry which has traditionally picked up and shared trading tips to make big profits. At the center of the case are Mr Rajaratnam, 52, his...
- News items 2009-10-19
- US poised to bring more insider trading cases
- By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Rachelle Younglai of Reuters BOSTON/WASHINGTON - Fresh from laying charges in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history, US federal investigators are poised to bring further "significant" cases. The targets will include financial professionals also involved in insider trading, a source familiar with the...
- News items 2009-10-19
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