The only way they could pull that off is by trading on privileged information.
France's stock market regulator opened an investigation into the case in 1989, but determined that Mr. Soros had not violated French insider rules, which at the time restricted only employees of the companies concerned from trading on privileged information.
Some e-mail messages between the Pentagon and the analysts reveal an implicit trade of privileged access for favorable coverage.
The American interest was reflected in increased trade (the old system of convoyed fleets was abandoned for individual sailings), the creation of privileged trading companies (1725), and the founding of new naval arsenals at Ferrol and Cartagena (1726).
For 20 years, as privileged trading partners of the United States, they have had the opportunity to influence it by creating a shared vision for North America.
One reason that the index is a good forecasting tool for the market's direction for up to a full year, he added, is insiders' fear of being accused of trading illegally on privileged information.
Not only did he personally lay down the lines of Denmark's mercantilistic policy, he even established the import duties; he started state-subsidized and privileged trading companies and manufacturies all of them with no marked success and insisted on auditing their accounts personally.
Even worse, this trade deal would give privileged access to the U.S. market to Malaysia where migrant workers in the electronics industry are working as modern-day slaves -- workers who have had their passports and wages confiscated and are unable to return to their own countries.
It's hard to prove a tip led to a lucrative trade for a privileged insider.
Though most Mexicans rarely say so in public, one of this nation's greatest strengths is its privileged trade status with the United States.
