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Insider Trading

This is trading in the shares of an entity by its directors and officers. These individuals are required to disclose their trades before they happen, and several services provide this information to investors. It is useful, though not an absolute indicator as to a stock?s potential movement, to know if insiders are selling or buying shares of the company they run.

News On Insider Trading
Tribunal adjourns RIL-Sebi case hearing till July 22

14-06-2013| Source:PTI

to alleged violation of insider trading norms in sale of shares of its erstwhile subsidiary RPL in 2007.RIL had approached SAT against Sebi after its application to settle the matter through a 'consent

Want call data records, not phone-tapping powers: UK Sinha

27-05-2013| Source:PTI

Securities and exchange board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha clarified that the regulatory body needed call data records (CDRs), not phone-tapping powers for investigations into insider trading

Tackling hydra of insider trading: Sebi@25  

24-05-2013| Source:CNBC-TV18

Insider trading is the Achilles heel of any market regulator. And over its 25-year existence, Sebi has had its fair share. In the fourth part of the series, Sebi @25, CNBC-TV18's Ashmit Kumar

US court studies wiretaps in Rajat Gupta insider case

22-05-2013| Source:Reuters

Lawyers arguiing for Rajat Gupta have asked for the reversal of his insider-trading conviction stating that the wiretap evidence used by the prosecution should not have been introduced at trial

Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

22-05-2013| Source:AP

have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges.Also read: Goldman exits China's ICBC, seven years and billions laterAttorney Seth Waxman told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan

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