Prediction markets are increasingly being framed not as gambling platforms but as vehicles for monetizing information, though ...

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Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are offering trades on which companies will air Super Bowl ads, prompting concerns about potential insider trading.

In 2025, the SEC has shifted focus back to traditional insider trading enforcement, with fewer new cases but steady penalties. The approach is more conservative, targeting classic schemes and ...

Prosecutors are asking a New York federal court judge to sentence two brothers to years in prison for their insider trading in a blank-check company's securities before it announced a planned merger ...

Insider trading is legal so long as the insiders report those trades to the SEC. Illegal securities trading occurs when the insider is violating a fiduciary duty or fails to report their trades.

An outcry over insider trading erupted after one Polymarket user made $400,000 betting that Maduro would be ousted, hours before it happened. Here’s why the godfather of prediction markets thinks it's ...

Journal Editorial Report: The 2024 candidates begin to define their opponent. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Congress has never clearly defined insider trading in stocks, but that ...

Nancy Pelosi's increasingly tense exchanges with CNN over stock trading have crystallized a long‑simmering question in Washington: should members of Congress be allowed to buy and sell individual ...