{"id":3755,"date":"2009-11-16T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:51:00","slug":"sec-probing-3com-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/16\/sec-probing-3com-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC probing 3Com trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3756\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/stock-trading-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stock trading\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/stock-trading-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/stock-trading.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Trading on 3Com stock options soared just hours before a Hewlett-Packard takeover bid and now the Securities and Exchange Commission is <a title=\"looking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a0LDGguBASUU#\" target=\"_blank\">looking<\/a> to see if it was a case of insider trading.\u00a0 Law\u00a0Professor <a title=\"Elizabeth Nowicki\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/visiting\/nowicki_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Nowicki<\/a>, a former SEC attorney, says the best\u00a0way to catch\u00a0SEC\u00a0suspicion is to place trades for calls immediately before a\u00a0major announcement.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In these difficult economic times, it is imperative for the SEC to convey the message to investors that unfair trading \u2013 insider trading \u2013 will be quickly punished. The worst thing for this economy would be for investors to lose their faith that the stock markets and stock trading is essentially fair.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Elizabeth Nowicki, 617-353-2807, <a href=\"mailto:enowicki@bu.edu\">enowicki@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading on 3Com stock options soared just hours before a Hewlett-Packard takeover bid and now the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to see if it was a case of insider trading.\u00a0 Law\u00a0Professor Elizabeth Nowicki, a former SEC attorney, says the best\u00a0way to catch\u00a0SEC\u00a0suspicion is to place trades for calls immediately before a\u00a0major announcement. &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}