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Why Did MTSR Stock Surge 15% On The Worst Trading Day Of 2025? Here's What Has Happened Since Its Listing
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 5:15am | 451The newly listed clinical-stage biotechnology company, Metsera Inc. (NASDAQ:MTSR) rose 15.01% on Monday as the broader markets declined. What Happened: While the company reported insider trades over the last month after its listing on Jan. 31, the stock has advanced 7.55% since it started trading...
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'Big Gamble or Insider Trading?' Whale Opens 50x Leveraged Long Position On Bitcoin, Etherum, Closes Just Before Trump's Crypto Reserve Announcement
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 2:16am | 951An investor’s highly leveraged long trade and closure just before President Donald Trump declared a cryptocurrency strategic reserve on Sunday raised speculation of insider trading. What happened: In an X post, capital markets commentator The Kobeissi Letter highlighted how a whale took a 50x...
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AOC Says Democrats in Congress Are Doing Insider Trading: 'People Think That Everyday People Are Stupid'
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 4:30pm | 520Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) publicly denounced the stock trading activities of lawmakers, pointing out an apparent inconsistency among Democrats. What Happened: Ocasio-Cortez and Jon Stewart voiced their disapproval of Congress members owning and trading stocks during a conversation on...
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'Hawk Tuah' Girl Accused Of Scamming Crypto Buyers After Newly-Launched Meme Coin Pumps And Dumps, Victims Contemplate Legal Action
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 5:18am | 994A meme coin launched by viral influencer Haliey Welch of the "Hawk Tuah" fame became a subject of controversy on Wednesday after it pumped and dumped, eroding millions of dollars in market value in quick time. What happened: HAWK, launched on Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based Meteora on Wednesday, swiftly...
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Elon Musk And Tesla Triumph In Dogecoin Insider Trading Lawsuit, Judge Says Investors Can't Rely On Tweets To Pursue Securities Fraud Claim
Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 11:02pm | 568Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), have won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing them of defrauding investors through insider trading and manipulating the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE). What Happened: As reported by Reuters, the decision was...
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Nvidia Insiders Cash In Over $700M This Year As Jensen Huang $3.2 Trillion Chip Empire Continues To Swell (UPDATED)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 4:15am | 741Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Nvidia Insiders at Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) have reportedly cashed in over $700 million in shares this year, as the company’s stock continues to rally, according to data compiled by Washington Service. What Happened: As per the...
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High-Profile Insider Trading Trial Tied To Trump Media & Technology Group Kicks Off In New York
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 10:07am | 751The high-profile insider trading trial linked to Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (NASDAQ:DJT) began in New York this Tuesday. The defendant is charged with unlawful trading in the shares of a shell company before its merger with Trump Media was announced. What Happened: The federal criminal...
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Financial Crimes Weekly: Insider Trading At Arista, Del Taco; KuCoin In Civil Action Suit
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 1:45pm | 683Andreas Bechtolsheim, founder and chief architect of Silicon Valley-based technology company Arista Networks Inc (NYSE:ANET), this week agreed to settle charges of insider trading, paying a civil penalty of nearly $1 million. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that...
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Snowflake Stock Is Heating Up After The Bell: Here's Why
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 4:56pm | 536Snowflake Inc (NYSE:SNOW) shares are heating up after the market close on Wednesday following insider buying from the company’s new CEO. What Happened: In a new regulatory filing released Wednesday after the bell, newly appointed Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy disclosed the purchase of 31,...
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Fair Play? Traders Turn $3,694 Into $1.78 Million With Copy Of 'Dogecoin Killer' $WIF
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 3:17pm | 590The Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based $dogwifhat yielded a few fresh wallets a profit of $1.78 million - from an original investment of only $3,694. But the execution of the trade may indicate insider trading. What Happened: On Feb. 3, 12 fresh wallets purchased $dogwifhat in...
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Fancy Meeting You Here: Tottenham Owner Sentencing Scheduled On Same Day, Same Courthouse As SBF, Not The Pair's First Connection
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 12:21pm | 396Tottenham Hotspur’s owner, one of the largest soccer clubs in Europe, pleaded guilty to insider trading Wednesday, saying he was “embarrassed” by his actions. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan charged Joe Lewis with insider trading for passing along non-public insider...
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Congressman Fined, Jailed For Insider Trading Could Be Running For Office Again
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 7:09pm | 631Increased attention has been placed on the trading history of stocks, options and cryptocurrencies by members of Congress, with members of the public and Congress itself fighting to ban the act of Congress trading. A former member of Congress convicted of insider trading could be running for re-...
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Insider Trader Turns $878 Into $550K In Just Hours With Memecoin $FERRET, But It's Not What It Seems
Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 9:51am | 563An insider trader turned 0.34 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), worth $878, into around $550,000 within the first eight hours after the launch of a memecoin called FERRET. What Happened: Lookonchain data revealed the insider trader purchased 80 million FERRET tokens using 0.34 ETH worth $...
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Senator Whitehouse Sells Pollution Treatment Firm's Stock (RETRACTED)
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 - 12:11pm | 49Editor’s note: Benzinga is retracting a story about stock trades made by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse due to a miscalculation of the value of the stock sale and a mischaracterization of earlier stock sales made by Whitehouse in 2008. We apologize for the errors.
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Xbox Chat Exposes A Shocking Wall Street Insider Trading Scheme By A Former Goldman Sachs Employee
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 4:54am | 456A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) employee has been charged with using Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox chat service to pass insider trading information. What Happened: Anthony Viggiano, a former Goldman Sachs financial analyst, has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange...