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Hedge Fund Agrees to Record Fine for Insider Trading

Posted: March 15, 2013 at 2:21 pm

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said today that the CR Intrinsic unit of hedge fund SAC Capital has agreed to pay $600 million to settle insider trading charges ...
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Massive Insider Selling Already Happening Before Higher Capital Gains Taxes Kick In

Posted: December 12, 2012 at 3:54 pm

Insider selling is starting to get massive before year-end when higher capital gains taxes will kick in. We continue to expect that corporate insiders, venture backers, private equity backers, and ...
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Criminal Charges in Drug Insider Trading Scheme

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 11:25 am

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today filed criminal charges against a former SAC Capital Advisors hedge-fund manager related to an insider trading scheme that generated profits and avoided ...
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Eight Stocks Being Accumulated by Large Holders (CYTR, DVA, HNSN, JNS, ODP, SONS, THC, VSAT)

Posted: October 19, 2012 at 8:16 am

There are a number of reasons that insiders and large holders sell shares of public companies. There is really only one reason that insiders and large holders buy shares, and ...
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Dick’s Chairman Sells $45 Million in Stock, Other Insiders Sold Too

Posted: August 21, 2012 at 7:17 am

Investors love tracking insider trading. Edward Stack, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer at Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE: DKS), just got some serious spending money ...
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Insiders Unloading Millions Worth Of Stock Via Option & Share Sales (INTU, BIIB, SHW, CF, DIS)

Posted: June 18, 2012 at 3:31 pm

When corporate management and insiders unload shares of stock, investors often look at the transactions.  This is legal insider trading that generally comes from planned share sales and/or via the ...
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Gupta Goes On Trial For Trading

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:30 am

Rajat K. Gupta, a former head of McKinsey & Co, and director of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will go on trial for insider trading. He will sit in Federal District ...
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Can Insider Buying Save Solar & Alt-Energy? (FSLR, WFR, LDK, JASO, ADM, AMSC, WPRT, GTAT)

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 11:01 am

While corporate insiders sell shares for all sorts of reasons, there is usually just one reason for insiders to buy: they think the stock price will rise. That belief typically ...
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Insider Selling Tops Buying by More Than 100 Times (QCOM, HPQ, AMZN, ATHR)

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm

When insider selling totals 114 times more than insider buying, the skeptics among us wonder what could be going on. According to Bloomberg News, cited at zerohedge.com, inquiring minds should ...
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Major Insider Selling To Set Records in December (AMZN, BRK-A, DDS, DTV, DG, EMC, EXPE, FDX, GPS, GENZ, INTC, JBHT, MSFT, JWN, ORCL, RL, CRM, SLB, SBUX, SCHW, VMW, WMT, WFMI, WYNN, DELL, LVS, GOOG)

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 8:02 am

Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof.  Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as ...
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WSJ: Investigation Of Insider Trading May Be Biggest Ever

Posted: November 20, 2010 at 6:44 am

According to information supplied by The Wall Street Journal to its subcribers: Federal authorities are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders and analysts ...
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