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Insider Trading is Very Damaging to Markets and a Terrible Crime …

Interesting bit from Slate (via Business
Insider
) from last week tracing
the shockingly good record of Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) employees when it comes to making trades at the
right time in stocks of companies the SEC investigates.Turns out reseachers found “SEC employees tend to sell a
company’s stock before the SEC takes enforcement action against the
company” leading to:
abnormal returns of about 4 percent for […]

Stock exchange to reinvent investing for birds, bees and trees …

Want to make money from a tree? You’ll probably need to cut it down. Live near a salmon or tuna fishery? Send out the boats and fishing nets for your livelihood.We know intuitively that there’s a value to managing wildlife, forests, water and other environmental resources more sustainably. But the trouble is that most economic assets don’t give individuals or […]

Follow-up Lines While Trading Penny Stocks – Penny Stocks | How …

Generally penny stocks trade on pink sheets and OTC bulletin board, and considered to be very risky. Due to low-price, penny stocks allow investors to purchase large number of these stocks. Though owning large chunks of stock is attractive, but penny stocks can also be easily deployed. Unlike big giants penny stocks can be easily pushed back with just a […]

Former Microsoft Executive Charged with Insider Trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Thursday that it has charged former Microsoft senior portfolio manager Brian Jorgenson and his friend/business partner Sean Stokke with insider trading ahead of company announcements.

They are also criminally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to the SEC, Jorgenson obtained confidential information about upcoming company news through his work in Microsoft’s corporate finance […]

Robinhood App Will Offer Zero-Commission Stock Trades Thanks …

Why pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 to trade a stock when you could do it for free? That premise helped mobile investment app startup Robinhood raise the $3 million seed round led by Index Ventures it announced today. With zero-commission trading it will launch next month, Robinhood is out to prove that young people do care about trading stocks — […]