In 1986, at the height of a bull market, Dennis Levine, a Wall Street investment banker, was caught red-handed trading and sharing tips on stocks involved in merger-and-acquisition activity. Levine ...

An outcry over insider trading erupted after one Polymarket user made $400,000 betting that Maduro would be ousted, hours ...

Insider trading may sound like something from a movie, but it’s a real and risky financial crime. Financial expert Paul Hood joined News On 6 on Monday to explain what insider trading really is, how ...

An effort to ban insider trading by officials privy to nonpublic government business using prediction markets has picked up a key endorsement.

In 2025, the SEC has shifted focus back to traditional insider trading enforcement, with fewer new cases but steady penalties. The approach is more conservative, targeting classic schemes and ...

Online sleuths have tried to uncover who placed a winning bet on the Venezuelan leader's arrest to no avail. Still, ...

It comes after someone made over $400,000 off of a well-timed trade on Polymarket, a competing prediction market platform.

Raj Rajaratnam is latest in long line of high-profile insider trading cases. Oct. 21, 2009— -- Friday morning FBI agents swept in on six men from New York City to San Jose, Calif., busting what U ...

Insider trading activity involves company insiders, such as executives, directors, and employees, engaging in transactions of their own company's stock. Insiders' buy and sell transactions provide ...