Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is pushing for a ban on active trading by members of Congress following accusations that some of their colleagues may have engaged in insider trading.
The Tesla CEO began to sell stock worth billions of dollars in late 2021.
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Recent reporting suggests Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented different versions of the company’s policies in private and public. That could draw the scrutiny of regulators.
Family-run businesses like Donald Trump’s tend to have little outside oversight.
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Publicly traded companies must have independent oversight and make regular financial and other disclosures. The Trump Organization has none of these safeguards.
GameStop shares soared after some retail investors teamed up to jack up the price.
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The easy answer as to why trading was halted relates to the stock’s ‘volatility’ after its dramatic climb in recent weeks. But it could also mean something fishy is going on.
Collins, second from right, departs a federal courthouse after being charged with insider trading.
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Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
Efforts to combat climate change are making extracting oil from areas like Canada’s tar sands fields more expensive.
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The Trump administration may reverse a recent push to require oil companies to disclose more information about climate change risks to investors. Is that a good thing?
Efforts to combat climate change are making extracting oil from areas like Canada’s tar sands fields more expensive.
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The SEC and others are pressing Exxon to disclose more climate change risks to investors. But new research suggests shareholders are already pricing in those costs on their own.
The conflict mineral provision has hurt the victims of the violence more than the perpetrators.
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Congress tasked the SEC with reducing violence in Congo through Dodd-Frank’s conflict minerals provision. A laudable goal, but the SEC can’t achieve it.
Iceland has sent four former directors of its bank Kaupthing to prison for fraud. But the chances of similar legal action happening in the UK are low, where fraud investigators have a poor record. The…