insider trading

English

Noun

insider trading (uncountable)

(business, finance, law) The illegal trading of a public company's stock or other securities based on material, nonpublic information about the company.
- 1942 February 9, “Back to Philadelphia”, in Time:
  Wall Street wants repeal of the provisions for penalizing executives (and large stockholders) who trade in their company's securities. It claims that publicity on such "insider" trading is enough.
- 2003 June 5, Jake Ulick, “Insider trading: A primer”, in CNNMoney.com, retrieved 25 Oct. 2008:
  The aim of insider trading law is simple: prohibit people from profiting from advance knowledge of a stock-moving event—be it a merger, an earnings warning or a soon-to-be-published news story.

Synonyms

inside dealing, inside trading, insider dealing

Hypernyms

fraud, white-collar crime

Related terms

insider trade

Translations

trading of securities by a person who has privileged access to information

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 內線交易／内线交易 (zh) (nèixiàn jiāoyì), 內部交易／内部交易 (nèibù jiāoyì), 內幕交易／内幕交易 (zh) (nèimù jiāoyì)
Danish: insiderhandel c
Finnish: sisäpiirikauppa
French: délit d’initié (fr)
German: Insiderhandel m
Hungarian: bennfentes kereskedés
Japanese: 内部者取引 (naibusha torihiki), インサイダー取引 (insaidā torihiki)
Korean: 내부자 거래 (naebuja georae)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: innsidehandel m

Nynorsk: innsidehandel m
Polish: nielegalny handel akcjami m
Russian: торго́вля инса́йдерской информа́цией f (torgóvlja insájdɛrskoj informácijej), инса́йдерские торго́вые опера́ции с це́нными бума́гами f pl (insájdɛrskije torgóvyje operácii s cénnymi bumágami), внутрисекретная торговля (vnutrisekretnaja torgovlja), инсайдерская торговля (insajderskaja torgovlja)
Swedish: insiderhandel c

See also

Further reading

insider trading on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English insider trading.

Noun

insider trading m (uncountable)

(finance) insider trading

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