Was there insider trading involved in Monday’s sell-off of Apple stock just prior to news that NASDAQ would rebalance several tech stocks, including Apple? That’s the concern of some investors trying to understand why $4.2 (1.2 percent) was shaved off the high-flying Cupertino, Calif. company.
“Doesn’t it feel as if someone got a call regarding the Apple re-weighting at 2pm on Friday afternoon, when the stock was trading at $348 and change?” Fortune quotes one investor. Monday’s sell-off of Apple shares happened on a “day when the Dow was up and a couple analysts had just raised their Apple target prices,” the magazine adds.
If suspicions are validated, it wouldn’t be the first time Apple stock was involved in insider trading. In Dec. of 2010, an executive at supplier Flextronics was arrested for allegedly leaking details of the upcoming iPhone and iPad. The arrest followed a three-month Securities and Exchange probe.
Ironically, the suspicious Apple trading occurred the same day a Facebook executive was fired for alleged insider trading.
[Fortune]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
13 responses to “Was Apple Stock Victim of Insider Trading?”
This sir, is the United States of America. Things like that don’t happen here. We have controls in place, and a government agency thingy that would be all over this if it was true.
Why, no, there just could not have been any insider trading ahead of the NASDAQ decision. Nanny is always looking out for us. Nanny would never let that happen. Especially to Apple Stock You can even ask Jim Cramer – well, don’t do that….
Never. Ever. I swear… ;-)
Shady insider deals on Wall Street? I am shocked. SHOCKED!
I sold my position in AAPL on Friday just after the stock began to plunge. It was clear that something was going on. There was also a so-called flash crash in February, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was related to this, too.
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