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kolbe on Nov 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before new...

>that insider dealing is defined and covered by securities laws and regulations

Correct. Now, if these employees had purchased mortgage backed securities, then it would be a different story.

mr_toad on Nov 22, 2018 [–]

Don’t they also have to be an insider? If an officer of company A buys securities from company B based on inside knowledge of company A, does that even count as insider trading?

icebraining on Nov 23, 2018 | [–]

Yes, since SEC v Materia (https://openjurist.org/745/f2d/197/securities-and-exchange-c...).

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