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Online sleuths have tried to uncover who placed a winning bet on the Venezuelan leader's arrest to no avail. Still, prediction market watchers say the bet appears suspicious.

Insider trading law emerged from a conviction that markets require confidence—that ordinary participants must believe the ...

A pseudonymous trader, known only as AlphaRaccoon, on prediction market Polymarket has drawn sharp scrutiny after reportedly turning a $1.15 million profit in under 24 hours by betting on Google’s ...

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 ...

The issue of insider trading has always been a hot one in the stock market and investment circles. Whereas illegal insider trading occurs when a person trades in stocks using non-public material ...

When corporate executives, board members, and major shareholders place significant trades in their own companies, they often know something the market doesn’t. Tracking insider trades has long been a ...

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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 ...