How to Use insider trading in a Sentence

insider trading

noun
  • The insider trading charges are now the least of her worries.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Dighton Police Chief Shawn Cronin is among five men charged in the insider trading scheme.
    Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Brad is off to jail for insider trading, having taken the fall for Jo to earn some street cred.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Charges of insider trading are by no means unheard of in the world of journalism.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • In some ways, then, the focus on dark web insider trading was inevitable.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Armstrong's campaign called the insider trading claim a lie, and the victims in the molestation case called for Miller to stop running ads about it.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 June 2024
  • Collins later resigned from the US House and pleaded guilty to insider trading.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Loudon has now admitted to insider trading and faces a lengthy prison sentence in addition to a steep fine.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His was the kind of insider trading more commonly seen on Wall Street, and he would have been prosecuted even without the Stock Act.
    Joe Nocera Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • And why, earlier this year, two men were charged with insider trading related to when and where certain bottles of whiskey would hit the shelves.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This is a great time to meet up with your other menstruating friends to silently solve world hunger, or do insider trading.
    Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the people in that crowd also took it for granted that Paul Pelosi is engaged in regular insider trading.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2021
  • In the world of stock trading, front-running is the practice of using inside knowledge to grab up shares before the price spikes (see also: insider trading).
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Experts say the deal, which caused the Canadian pension fund to lose over $100 million in two weeks, is likely to be reviewed for insider trading.
    Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • He was forced to address something rare in the world of central banking—an insider trading scandal among his top lieutenants.
    Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Since the law’s passage, just one member of Congress has been convicted of insider trading.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Not for nothing — Ken knows about Hugo’s recent insider trading.
    Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • Here are four dispatches from the (legal) insider trading front.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Pourhassan was charged with multiple counts of wire fraud and securities fraud and three counts of insider trading.
    oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The disclosure, in a filing with the Senate, came 16 months after the 45-day reporting deadline set forth in the Stock Act, which is designed to combat insider trading.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In May 2016, Walters was indicted on charges of insider trading.
    Gene Wang, Washington Post, 15 May 2022
  • However, insider trading in such cases is hard to prove.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Two other lower-ranking managers, who sold shares roughly a month after the breach, were later found guilty of insider trading.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Houston man who pled guilty to insider trading after eavesdropping on his BP executive ex-wife was sentenced to two years in prison.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 May 2024
  • The federal charges mark a rare case of insider trading in the emerging cryptocurrency sector.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 21 July 2022
  • He was accused of insider trading by authorities and in 2012 pleaded guilty to wire fraud on behalf of his hedge fund, Tiger Asia Management.
    Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Each of the four defendants, as well as a fifth person, were charged with civil counts of insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The deal has been in the works for a couple years and hit several stumbling blocks along the way—including insider trading allegations—but could now finally come to fruition.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Yuji Naka, the co-creator of the popular Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, has been arrested in Tokyo on charges of insider trading.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The stock sales were carried out as part of a pre-set 10b5-1 trading plan, which executives use to allay concerns about insider trading, according to the Reuters report.
    Wire Reports, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2022

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