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Corporate insiders are selling more stock in the companies they run than usual

Justin Ho Sep 24, 2019
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Corporate insiders are selling more stock in the companies they run than usual

Justin Ho Sep 24, 2019
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Corporate insiders — board members and C-suite executives — are selling stock in their own companies at the fastest rate since the peak of the dot-com bubble, according to a U.K. analysis firm called Smart Insider, first reported by the Financial Times. Is this simply a result of the stock market trading near record highs, or do those corporate titans know something that the rest of us don’t?

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