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

Maybe they’re cashing in. Maybe they’re worried.

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