April 28, 2010
by Godot Huard
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With a little help from their bankers, corporate insiders can enter transactions, such as zero-cost collars and prepaid variable forward contracts, to limit their exposure to movements in their firm’s stock price. These transactions might be even nastier than plain vanilla insider selling activity.
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January 14, 2010
by Godot Huard
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From BlueTrader Blog Google, the global market leader in Search, has threatened to pull out their presence in China. The announcement of Google to pull out their website, Google.cn, has been due to alleged hacking of some of the accounts … Continue reading
October 17, 2009
by Godot Huard
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High-Ranking Corporate Executives Also Charged in Scheme That Generated More Than $25 Million in Illicit Gains Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2009. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm Galleon … Continue reading
August 31, 2009
by Godot Huard
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Our friends at The Wall Street Journal have come up with some interesting research: In August, corporate insiders — officers and directors of public companies — sold nearly 31 times as much stock as they bought. From last September through … Continue reading
July 29, 2009
by Godot Huard
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When it comes to investing, Gina Moore thinks actions speak louder than words. The portfolio manager at Aronson + Johnson + Ortiz, a Philadelphia investment firm with $17 billion under management, says she doesn’t talk with executives of companies she’s … Continue reading
July 20, 2009
by Godot Huard
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One of my favorite dotcom billionnaire, Mark Cuban, investor in many Internet startups such as Broadcast.com (sold to Yahoo! for 4.6 billion), backer of NAKEDpizza and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has seen the insider trading charges Read … Continue reading
May 25, 2009
by Godot Huard
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The insider trading suit filed against Cuban by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year is scheduled to receive its first hearing Tuesday when attorneys present oral arguments on a motion by the billionaire owner to have the case … Continue reading
May 7, 2009
by Godot Huard
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An study is showing that insiders of U.S. companies are taking steeps to lighten their exposure to their own company’s stock. Examples of this sort of behavior are clear from the founding family behind Gap, Inc (GPS), the CEO of … Continue reading