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Insight: When options trading ahead of deals raises eyebrows

Within 36 hours of Warren Buffett's announcement of a deal to buy H.J. Heinz, U.S. authorities froze an account linked to possible insider trading.The speed of the crackdown on a lucrative options bet, combined with successful prosecutions of insider trading rings, suggested that regulators were quickly jumping on any suspicious activity.Yet some veterans of the options business are unconvinced. They worry that very profitable options trading ahead of big corporate news is undermining investor confidence in the fairness of markets.A study for Reuters by options research firm Schaeffer's Investment Research of 181 such announcements in the 14 months to the end of February shows that such activity prior to news of takeovers, big stock repurchases or a major investment occurs on a regular basis.There were 41 examples of companies, or 23 percent of the sample, where the volume of new call options positions - effectively bets that the underlying stock would rise - had risen by at least 50 p...

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    There are a few stocks down on high volume today:Today, Humana (NYSE:HUM) is down on high volume, trading at a volume of 6.2 million, or 3.1 times its average daily ...

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    FOX Business: The Power to ProsperWall Street dipped slightly lower Monday afternoon as the bulls take their feet off the gas pedal after the blue chips soared more ...

  4. CB&I to Buy Shaw for $3B

    The Shaw Group (NYSE:SHAW) has agreed to be bought by CB&I (NYSE:CBI) in a cash and stock transaction valued at $3 billion, creating one of the world's largest engin...

  5. Shaw Group Cut To Underperform At Macquarie

    Analysts at Macquarie (USA) Equities Research on Wednesday cut their rating on Shaw Group Inc. to underperform from neutral a day after the power plant construction ...

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  8. Shaw Group Narrows Loss, Sets $500 Mln Buyback

    Shaw Group Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter loss narrowed to $16 million, or 24 cents a share, from a loss of $70 million, or 89 cents a share, in the year-ago pe...

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    A few stocks are down on high volume today:BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) is trading down on a volume of 1.4 million, or two times its normal daily volume. Trading at $166, th...

  11. Shaw Group Profit Climbs Sharply, Revenue Edges Up

    Shaw Group Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter profit for the three months ended Feb. 29 increased sharply to $52.5 million, or 78 cents a share, from $1.2 million...

  12. Expected Price Gains in Uranium Mining and Nuclear Energy (CCJ, DNN, URRE, URZ, UEC, URG, USU, GE, SHAW, ARVCF, TOSBF)

    The outlook for uranium miners and nuclear power plant builders has dimmed considerably following the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant last spring. ...

  1. As Tax Hikes Loomed, Some CEOs Sold Stock

    As Congress mulled higher tax rates last month, dozens of corporate executives sold big chunks of stock, saving themselves millions of dollars in taxes.A Wall Street...

  2. Shaw CEO sells most of stake after shareholders ok CB&I deal

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    A123 Systems Inc. plans to seek bankruptcy-court approval Tuesday to sell itself to the winning bidder of an auction that began Thursday.The government-backed maker ...

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    Four top U.S. manufacturers, including General Electric Co and Honeywell International Corp , reported weaker-than-expected sales on Friday, in a fresh warning to in...

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    A common theme emerged Friday as U.S. multinational manufacturers delivered a mixed bag of earnings results: Sales were stung by a robust U.S. dollar, and weaker gro...

  7. Toshiba to Buy Shaw's Westinghouse Stake for $1.6 Billion

    Toshiba Corp. (6502.TO) said Wednesday it will buy out Shaw Group Inc.'s (SHAW) 20% stake in nuclear power-plant company Westinghouse Electric Co. for about Y125 bil...

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