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insider trading
noun
- the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
insider trading
- The unlawful practice of using information that comes from a source “inside” the business but is not available to the general public to trade on the stock market . This activity is prohibited by law and is policed by the Securities and Exchange Commission .
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Other 51Թ Forms
- insider trader noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of insider trading1
Example Sentences
He also told me, apropos of conjectures about White House insider trading: “This particular kind of trading — hour by hour on tariff changes — doesn’t strike me as likely, but who knows?!”
The missed "SNL" opportunity came shortly after Stewart had served five months at the Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia for fraud and conspiracy in an insider trading case in 2004.
He is widely expected to dial back enforcement at the agency, which polices publicly traded firms such as Trump Media for issues such as fraud and insider trading.
Earlier this year, Thompson was a plaintiff in a high-profile lawsuit alleging fraud and insider trading.
“If you had that document with that exact verbiage issued by a CEO of a publicly traded company, they would be charged with fraud in two seconds. That is insider trading.”
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