insider trading

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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.

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Unadapted borrowing from English insider trading.

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insider trading m (uncountable)

  1. (finance) insider trading