insider trading

English

Noun

insider trading (uncountable)

1. (business, finance, law) The illegal trading of a public company's stock or other securities based on material, nonpublic information about the company.
   • 1942 February 9, “Back to Philadelphia”, in Time:

     Wall Street wants repeal of the provisions for penalizing executives (and large stockholders) who trade in their company's securities. It claims that publicity on such "insider" trading is enough.

   • 2003 June 5, Jake Ulick, “Insider trading: A primer”, in CNNMoney.com, retrieved 25 Oct. 2008:

     The aim of insider trading law is simple: prohibit people from profiting from advance knowledge of a stock-moving event—be it a merger, an earnings warning or a soon-to-be-published news story.

Synonyms

• inside dealing, inside trading, insider dealing

Hypernyms

• fraud, white-collar crime

Related terms

• insider trade

Translations

trading of securities by a person who has privileged access to information

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內線交易／内线交易 (zh) (nèixiàn jiāoyì), 內部交易／内部交易 (nèibù jiāoyì), 內幕交易／内幕交易 (zh) (nèimù jiāoyì)

• Danish: insiderhandel c
• Finnish: sisäpiirikauppa
• French: délit d’initié (fr)
• German: Insiderhandel m
• Hungarian: bennfentes kereskedés
• Japanese: 内部者取引 (naibusha torihiki), インサイダー取引 (insaidā torihiki)
• Korean: 내부자 거래 (naebuja georae)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innsidehandel m

  Nynorsk: innsidehandel m

• Polish: nielegalny handel akcjami m
• Russian: торго́вля инса́йдерской информа́цией f (torgóvlja insájdɛrskoj informácijej), инса́йдерские торго́вые опера́ции с це́нными бума́гами f pl (insájdɛrskije torgóvyje operácii s cénnymi bumágami), внутрисекретная торговля (vnutrisekretnaja torgovlja), инсайдерская торговля (insajderskaja torgovlja)
• Swedish: insiderhandel c

See also

• MNPI
• inside information

Further reading

• insider trading on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English insider trading.

Noun

insider trading m (uncountable)

1. (finance) insider trading