Insider
an insider (noun) - someone involved in a situation and knows more about it than other people
insider trading (noun) - illegal stock trading by someone who has secret or private information about a company
Example sentences:
* An industry insider confided that upper management knew the ad was offensive but let it be aired anyway.
* An insider at the mining company said the death of miners in the explosion was an accident.
* A Royal insider said that Prince Andrew was only joking.
* An unidentified executive is at the centre of an investigation into alleged insider trading at the TV station.
* A small group of whistle blowers are accusing government officials in the department of mismanagement, fraud, and insider trading.
* Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities (e.g. bonds or stock options) by corporate insiders such as officers, directors, or holders of more than ten percent of the firm's shares.
* While dining at a restaurant, if you hear the CEO at the next table telling his wife that the company will be taken over soon, and then you buy the stock, you wouldn't be guilty of insider trading unless there was some closer connection between you, the company, the company officers, or the wife.
* The economist Milton Friedman believes that, "You want more insider trading, not less. You want to give the people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that." (Source Wikipedia)
* Insider trading is legal in some markets such as real estate.
* Much of the development of insider trading law has resulted from court decisions.
* Insider gossip says that Tanya Peters is not really going to divorce her husband of 15 years.
* Bradlee was a Washington insider from his days as Newsweek's bureau chief in the 1950s.
* She was known as the quintessential Washington insider who could bring the black and white communities in America together.
* An insider at the club explained last night that the ritual was part of the club's secret initiation ceremonies.
* The Insider was a very popular movie. (Read the review of film at the Columbia Journalism Review).
* Freedom of speech is not relevant to insider trading laws, because corporate insiders have no more right to communicate insider information than they would have to communicate their company's product designs, formulas, or bank account passwords. (Source Wikipedia)
