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Re:Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress by BurningFrog on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:55PM (#26826637)
Honest question: If I work at Microsoft and I know we'll launch a product that will kill competitor X, am I allowed to short the X stock?

That more analogous to the politician trading. They do have inside information, but it's not from inside the company they're trading.

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Re:Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress by iudqnolq on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:44AM (#26835286)
No, because that would be considered "stealing" from Microsoft. (I think it's a stupid way to define it.)
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