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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. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The law prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including ...
The Raj Rajaratnam/Galleon Group, Anil Kumar, and Rajat Gupta inside trading cases are parallel and related civil and criminal actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice against three friends and business partners: Galleon Group hedge fund founder-owner Raj Rajaratnam and former McKinsey & Company senior executives Anil Kumar and Rajat Gupta.
The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.
House Democrats introduced a long-awaited bill on Tuesday that seeks to ban members of Congress, federal judges, Supreme Court justices, the president and others from trading stocks, in an attempt ...
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.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday teased a vote in the House on a bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks, telling reporters that the long-awaited legislation could be ready to come ...
After an initial flurry of momentum, advocates on Capitol Hill for a ban on stock trading by members of Congress have seen progress slow. They agree on the need to ban trades but aren’t on the ...
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". [1]In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.