Sunday, June 17, 2007

Swiss Lawmakers to Today Vote to Tighten `Toothless' Insider-Trading Laws

(Bloomberg) -- Swiss upper-house lawmakers will vote
today in favor of closing a legal loophole that allows insider
trading on advance knowledge of company earnings.

Switzerland's penal code requires jail terms or fines for
executives, directors or auditors who capitalize on knowing what
the rest of the market doesn't know. However, it limits such cases
to a planned sale of new shares, a merger or ``circumstances of
comparable significance.''


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