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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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In the mid-1980s, several revelations of insider trading rocked Wall Street.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of insider trading¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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Perhaps he benefited from some insider trading from the fast bowlers' union to achieve the feat.

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The nature of the private meeting, which was proceeded by a market surge, renewed concerns over insider trading.

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That means, however uncomfortable it may seem, shifting the public focus elsewhere — think of Martha Stewart famously focusing on her salad amid insider trading allegations.

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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?!”

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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.

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