I can imagine if your job is to predict stock movements and you are hired for those predictions (as a company, not as an employee), then I can imagine not wanting to hand out the analysis, as that could then be shopped to others. Without your reputation and/or analysis, someone reselling your predictions is less likely yo be successful.

That said, if you are employed by the company, the work and the product is all owned by them, so there's no reason not to provide all information when asked.

> Insider trading is legal now if you are powerful and wealthy and not an appropriate candidate for some sort of selective enforcement of the laws, it seems.

I think you can replace insider trading in that statement with just about any other criminal act and it's still mostly true, in most parts of the world.