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Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. [1] In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information is illegal. The rationale for this prohibition of insider trading differs between countries/regions.
SEC Rule 10b5-1, codified at 17 CFR 240.10b5-1, is a regulation enacted by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2000. [1] The SEC states that Rule 10b5-1 was enacted in order to resolve an unsettled issue over the definition of insider trading, [2] which is prohibited by SEC Rule 10b-5.
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–105 (text), S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading.
The rules around insider trading seem simple: Corporate insiders can’t turn a profit or dodge a loss on their stocks while they have pertinent information that regular investors don’t know.
The SEC's Coinbase insider trading lawsuit is a more complicated case because none of the defendants are crypto firms, but instead, individuals accused of using insider information for personal gain.
SEC Rule 10b-5, codified at 17 CFR 240.10b-5, is one of the most important rules targeting securities fraud in the United States. It was promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), pursuant to its authority granted under § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. [1]
Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona sat down with Yahoo Finance to talk about his Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act, which would confiscate a lawmaker’s entire salary if they break the rules.
The Texas Gulf Sulphur decision represented the first time a federal court held that insider trading violated federal securities laws. [2] The SEC in Cady, Roberts & Co. (1961) had extensively treated insider trading and set out the "disclose or abstain rule", but as an agency opinion, it did not have precedential value in federal courts. [35]