Insider trading or insider dealing is the illegal buying or selling of a company's shares by someone who has secret or private information about the company.
[business]
insider trading in American English
the buying or selling of a company's stock by one who has access to information not made public: trading based on such information may be illegal
insider trading in Finance
(ɪnsaɪdər treɪdɪŋ)
noun
(Finance: Investment)
Insider trading is the act of illegally buying or selling securities based on confidential information not known to the general investing public.
SIMILAR WORDS:
insider dealing
There are legal barriers to private information becoming public, as with insider trading laws.
Insider trading is the buying or selling of a company's stock by that company's management, boardof directors, or persons holding more than 10 percent of a company's shares.
Insider trading is the act of illegally buying or selling securities based on confidential informationnot known to the general investing public.
Examples of 'insider trading' in a sentence
insider trading
No one there had stripped assets, borrowed riskily without telling the shareholders, indulged in insider trading.
Cleary, Jon MURDER SONG (2001)
`I'll be naming Debbs and his missus, too, about insider trading.
Cleary, Jon MURDER SONG (2001)
Remember when insider trading got them an automatic season ticket to Camelot?
Forbes, Bryan A SONG AT TWILIGHT (2001)
So far she hasn't been arrested for stock fraud, insider trading, or alienation of affection.
Olivia Goldsmith INSIDERS (2001)
In other languages
insider trading
British English: insider trading NOUN
Insider trading is the illegal buying or selling of a company's shares by someone who has secret or private information about the company.
...a friend of hers who is accused of insider trading in shares of his own company.
American English: insider trading
Brazilian Portuguese: compra ilegal de ações por alguém que detém informações privilegiadas
Chinese: 内幕交易
European Spanish: abuso de información privilegiada
French: délit d'initiés
German: Insiderhandel
Italian: insider trading
Japanese: インサイダー取引
Korean: 내부자 거래
European Portuguese: compra ilegal de ações por alguém que detém informações privilegiadas
Latin American Spanish: abuso de información privilegiada