Insider trading - The cost of inequity.(new study on effects of insider trading)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US) | January 22, 2000 | Copyright

NEW YORK

TO MANY investors, insider trading remains one of those sins covered only by the eleventh commandment: thou shalt not get caught. Indeed, in much of the world, it is only recently that feathering your nest by trading on privileged information about a company has been seen as a crime. America banned most forms of insider trading in 1934--though enforcement since has often lacked vigour--but it did not become illegal until 1980 in Britain and 1994 in Germany. During the 1990s, the number of stockmarkets on which insider trading is a crime soared from 34 out ...

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