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SEC Digs in on Insider Trading Enforcement

SEC Digs in on Insider Trading Enforcement

SEC Digs in on Insider Trading Enforcement

Low-level employees at a high-flying tech company team up with their buddies to make millions off illicit stock trades by exchanging corporate secrets. It sounds like the kind of story Netflix might turn into an episode of its documentary s...

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Gensler Looks to Tighten Rules for 10b5-1 Plans

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While their companies were busy last year developing vaccines to help fight the coronavirus, executives at major pharmaceutical companies were busy cashing in on stock sales. Their trades involved more than 8.5 million shares of stock and p...

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Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

You’ve heard of insider trading in which people buy or sell securities based on information that isn’t available to the public. But what about “insider giving?” According to a new study, it’s all the rage. Unlike insider trading, insider gi...

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Regulatory Machinery Can’t Stop Musk’s Market-Moving Mayhem

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Human beings can never know exactly what it feels like to be a marionette manipulated by the whims of a puppeteer. They can, however, invest in cryptocurrency and then follow Elon Musk’s Twitter account. When they do, they’ll find themselve...

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Buybacks Beware: SEC Settlement Sends Message About Internal Controls

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Public corporations are spending upwards of a trillion dollars annually on stock buybacks, sending capital back to shareholders by the truckload. However, in a year already fraught with perils for U.S. companies that would like to buy back...

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