insider trading

insider trading
insider trader.
the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
[1965-70]

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Illegal use of insider information for profit in financial trading.

Since 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission has prohibited trading while in possession of material nonpublic information. See also arbitrage, Michael R. Milken.

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