Sunday, February 17, 2013

SEC sues over Heinz option trading before buyout - Yahoo! Finance

SEC sues over Heinz option trading before buyout - Yahoo! Finance:

"The suit, in federal court in Manhattan, cites "highly suspicious trading" in Heinz call options just prior to the February 14 announcement of the deal. The regulator has frequently in past filed suit against unnamed individuals where it has evidence of wrongdoing, but is still trying to uncover the identities of those involved.

That trading, the suit said, caused the price of the particular call option they bought to soar 1,700 percent and generated unrealized profits of more than $1.7 million."


Interestingly, the event study using yahoo data (which I think does not look at afterhour trading) on the stock looks "clean" with two right angles:


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