INSIDER TRADING

New research suggests men earn more than women on insider trades due to the informal networks that male executives tend to build with each other.

The House Ways and Means Committee says the U.S. Constitution shields it in the case involving a staff member.

Benjamin Durant, 37, was charged with two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy, while Daryl Payton, 38, was charged with three securities fraud counts and one conspiracy count.

The SEC is investigating how a major change, made to the health-care bill reached traders before it was announced.

The order by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in New York covers both the committee and Brian Sutter, staff director for its healthcare subcommittee and came at the SEC's request.

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) director Rajat Gupta on Tuesday began serving his two-year prison term for insider trading.

Rajat Gupta is the highest-ranking corporate official to be convicted in the government's probe of insider trading in the hedge fund industry.

The retailer's stock spiked 9 percent after Icahn made his investment public.

Expect an appeal from Michael Steinberg, who was also fined $2 million.

A hearing is set on Friday to sentence Steinberg. Prosecutors say he should serve up to six and half years for trading on inside information.

The case marks the first time the SEC reached a so-called "non-prosecution" agreement with an individual - an unnamed trader.

At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain accepted SAC Capital's guilty plea to fraud charges and payment of a $900 million fine.

Prosecutors said the deal is the largest insider trading settlement in U.S. history - one that resulted in a rare guilty plea by a large company.

Since October 2009, 90 people have been charged for insider trading, of whom 79 have pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial.

During Mathew Martoma's trial, a witness testified that the feds were “really after a man named Steven A. Cohen.”

Shares of "NEST" jumped 1,900 percent after investors confused the penny stock with Nest Labs.

The U.S. attorney in Manhattan criticized India for focusing solely on the official’s arrest and not on the underpaid victim's plight.

Employees of Bernie Madoff's firm sought the loan, which was twice its credit at the time, according to a published report.

The allegations against Joseph Hunter and four former soldiers "read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel," according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

The SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office says Aggarwal bought shares in the Yahoo-Microsoft deal using his contacts at Microsoft.

Hedge fund SAC Capital pleaded not guilty to charges of rampant insider trading, but a former insider threatens to blow open the continuing investigation.