DUE to the job requirements of journalists, who have to interview top decision makers and owners of companies to get first-hand news, they can fall prey to insider trading if they do not know the law or succumb to greed.
To thank or please a journalist who has interviewed him for writing about his company or his success, a company founder sometimes intentionally leaks out market sensitive information to a reporter and tells him to buy the company’s share ahead of a positive news announcement.
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